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June 29, 2021 10:24 IST
At the heart of the dispute between Twitter and the Union government is who gets to decide what goes on the platform, and both parties are claiming to be defenders of free speech.
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Both Twitter and the Indian government are claiming to be defenders of free speech.
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At the heart of the dispute between Twitter and the Union government is who gets to decide what goes on the platform, and both parties are claiming to be defenders of free speech.
Twitter and India’s Union government aren’t in the best of terms of late. Problems emerged as early as in February when the government ordered the platform to remove content relating to farmer protests and to block several accounts. This was during the peak of the farmers’ agitation against the country’s newly enacted farm laws.
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