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Indian Government orders censoring of accounts on X (x.com)

submitted 3 days 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 3 days ago (11 children)

in other words, even if musk didn’t want to have them blocked

Why do you go straight to anti-Musk conspiracy theories? This has been X's - and Elon Musks - position from the start. It's the very reason why he bought Twitter in the first place - to stop the erosion of free speech on social media.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (10 children)

It’s the very reason why he bought Twitter in the first place - to stop the erosion of free speech on social media.

you know I thought I misread that for a moment and I thought you meant to say that he wanted to erode free speech, but that's not what ur saying

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anti-musk conspiracy theories

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (9 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

See this https://piefed.social/search?q=censorship+musk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What specifically in there is about musk being pro censorship?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

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

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