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“Not a surprise. But terrifying nonetheless.”
That’s how Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein responded Sunday to news that India had requested and Twitter had agreed to have numerous tweets critical of the Modi government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic blocked from the popular social media platform.
The Indian news outlet
Buzzfeed in U.S. press. According to
Medianama’s reporting by Aroon Deep and Aditya Chunduru:
Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised India’s handling of the second surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. These tweets, which are now inaccessible to Indian users of the social media website, include posts by Revanth Reddy, a sitting Member of Parliament; Moloy Ghatak, a West Bengal state minister; actor Vineet Kumar Singh; and two filmmakers, Vinod Kapri and Avinash Das.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has announced the creation of a blind Bitcoin (BTC) development trust worth 500 BTC ($23.7 million), along with rapper Jay-Z, for teams working on the project in India and Africa.
Dorsey revealed the creation of the trust on Feb. 12 while sending out a call for three board members to oversee the blind trust initially.
JAY-Z/@S C and I are giving 500 BTC to a new endowment named ₿trust to fund #Bitcoin development, initially focused on teams in Africa & India. It‘ll be set up as a blind irrevocable trust, taking zero direction from us. We need 3 board members to start: https://t.co/L4mRBryMJe jack (@jack) February 12, 2021
Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z to Launch Bitcoin Trust in India and Africa
Feb 12 2021 · 16:27 UTC | Updated
Feb 12 2021 · 16:28 by Oluwapelumi Adejumo · 3 min read
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The crypto industry in Africa and India is still nascent as the countries are just beginning to come to terms with what this new technological advancement means for their financial industry.
Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey together with billionaire music mogul Jay-Z have announced a blind Bitcoin (BTC) development trust that is worth 500 units of BTCs which translates to over $23 million. The trust would have a mission of “making bitcoin the internet’s currency” and it would be focused on teams in India and Africa, first. These teams would make substantial efforts towards the development of the leading crypto asset.