It’s a fait accompli, one supposes. In record quick time, Twitter last week capitulated to the Narendra Modi government’s order that it ba...
It’s a fait accompli, one supposes. In record quick time, Twitter last week capitulated to the Narendra Modi government’s order that it ban a wide range of accounts that were critical of the latter’s actions regarding the farmers’ protests in India. The Indian government’s demand was accompanied by a threat that it would imprison Twitter’s employees in India if the social media giant failed to comply with the diktat.
The ultimatum came as no surprise for a government that historian and commentator Ramachandra Guha recently described quite perfectly in an interview with journalist Karan Thapar as “authoritarian, sectarian, and incompetent”.
Add to that the notoriously thin-skinned nature of Narendra Modi and his fan club, who cannot bear any criticism of the man and his government – especially negative international press – and you know that they would have likely made good on their threat.
Plus, going forward they would have likely created endless trouble for Twitter. Even though Modi and his followers likely need Twitter more than Twitter needs the Indian market, which is not currently a major source of revenue for it, the platform does not want to forfeit the sheer potential volume of future users that India represents.
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