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Indian Government orders censoring of accounts on X (x.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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X has received executive orders from the Indian government requiring X to block over 8,000 accounts in India, subject to potential penalties including significant fines and imprisonment of the company’s local employees. The orders include demands to block access in India to accounts belonging to international news organizations and prominent X users.

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X is exploring all possible legal avenues available to the company. Unlike users located in India, X is restricted by Indian law in its ability to bring legal challenges against these executive orders. However, we encourage all users who are impacted by these blocking orders to seek appropriate relief from the courts.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

You specifically made out that Musk would want this censorship, which flies against every action we have seen from him.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Oh yay, more disingenuous clickbait. The full quote was this:

Musk defended his decision, arguing that "the choice is have Twitter throttled in its entirety or limit access to some tweets."

So the choice was either do what they ordered or take the whole site down for the whole country….. and you think he made the wrong choice?

I swear no one on Lemmy can read past a headline, and they instantly believe it if it suits their agenda.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

He could have tried to fight the order, that's what the previous management used to do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Also, remember the legal battle Elon had against Brazil over suspending some 5 users. It seems like Musk just follows order from governments that are authoritarian.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Any info on this? All I can find is that they would publish info on how many requests etc they go, not that they would fight them rather than comply.

Since they were never taken offline or banned in countries I’m assuming they didn’t fight very hard?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What specifically in there is about musk being pro censorship?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

If you don't want to see it, you're not going to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Aha, I see, irony.

By "every action" you mean "no again."