{"id":57576,"date":"2021-04-27T06:31:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T11:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57576"},"modified":"2021-04-27T06:31:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T11:31:17","slug":"twitter-admits-to-censoring-criticism-of-the-indian-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57576","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Admits To Censoring Criticism of The Indian Government"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Twitter Admits To Censoring Criticism of The Indian Government<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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\"Twitter<\/a>On Saturday, Twitter admitted that it is actively working with the Indian government to censor criticism of its handling of the pandemic as the number of cases and deaths continues to skyrocket. There are widespread reports that the Indian government has\u00a0misrepresented the number of deaths<\/a>\u00a0and the true rate of cases could be\u00a0as much as 30 times higher<\/a>\u00a0than reported.\u00a0 The country has a shortage of beds, oxygen, and other essentials due to a failure to adequately prepare for a new surge. Not surprisingly, the Indian government has moved to crackdown on criticism. This included a call to Twitter to censor such information and Twitter has, of course, complied. With the\u00a0support of many Democratic leaders in the United States<\/a>, Twitter now regularly censors viewpoints in the United States and India had no trouble in enlisting it to crackdown on those raising the alarm over false government reporting.<\/span><\/p>\n

Buried in an\u00a0Associated Press story<\/a>\u00a0on the raging pandemic and failures of the Indian government are these two lines:<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Saturday, Twitter complied with the government\u2019s request and prevented people in India from viewing more than 50 tweets that appeared to criticize the administration\u2019s handling of the pandemic. The targeted posts include tweets from opposition ministers critical of Modi, journalists and ordinary Indians.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article quotes Twitter as saying that it had powers to \u201cwithhold access to the content in India only\u201d if the company determined the content to be \u201cillegal in a particular jurisdiction.\u201d Thus, criticism of the government in this context is illegal so Twitter has agreed to become an arm of the government in censoring information.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind that this information could protect lives. It is not \u201cfake news\u201d but efforts by journalists and others to disclose failures by the government that could cost hundreds of thousands of lives.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twitter Admits To Censoring Criticism of The Indian Government On Saturday, Twitter admitted that it is actively working with the Indian government to censor criticism of its handling of the pandemic as the number of cases and deaths continues to skyrocket. There are widespread reports that the Indian government has\u00a0misrepresented the number of deaths\u00a0and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,379,422,28781,819],"class_list":["post-57576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-government","tag-india","tag-jonathan-turley","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57577,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57576\/revisions\/57577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}