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How India tamed Twitter and set a global standard for online censorship 2023/11/09 03:00
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- URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/08/india-twitter-online-censorship/
- Posted: 2023-11-09T03:00:00.101Z (date: 2023/11/09)
- Topics: India X-Twitter censorship social media Narendra Modi nationalism democracy
- Summary: «For years, a committee of executives from U.S. technology companies and Indian officials convened every two weeks in a government office to negotiate what could — and could not — be said on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.» ... «In the past two years, the Indian government has dramatically tightened its grip on American social media companies. Silicon Valley firms that were at times defiant are now far more accepting of Indian government dictates to censor material, in particular criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).» ... «This escalating censorship in the world’s largest democracy is part of a wider campaign by Modi and his Hindu nationalist allies to monopolize public discourse: tightening their grip on power, advancing their Hindu-first ideology and squeezing out critical and dissenting voices. American technology companies have increasingly fallen in line, fearing for their employees’ security and their profits.»
- source: The Washington Post
- author: Karishma Mehrotra (WaPo), Joseph Menn (WaPo, fedi, BSky)
- posts: fedi, BSky