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I did read the article. How's it anti-India? I sympathise with Twitter. India is number 1 on the list of countries that request for information on social media

I did read the article. How's it anti-India? I sympathise with Twitter. India is number 1 on the list of countries that request for information on social media users and also in requesting censorship.

sbmthakur 7y ago
> I sympathise with Twitter. India is number 1 on the list of countries that request for information on social media users and also in requesting censorship. And they have a good reason for that. This is from the article: The report said most of the blocked content was critical of the government's recent move to strip Indian-administered Kashmir of its semi-autonomous status, and were made after requests by the government itself. There was a massive misinformation campaign against India on Twitter in the aftermath of abrogating article 370. Many of these tweets originated from Pakistani handles[1][2]. They have even started impersonating top Indian military officials on Twitter[3]. And it seems that they are not just stopping with Kashmir. The propaganda campaign even covers Rafale and Tamil Nadu[4][5]. I agree with you that the article isn't particularly anti-India. However, the article should've provided some more context considering that a lot of BBC readers are from the West. 1. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/crpf-j-k-police-kashmir-1580061-2019-08-12 https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/crpf-j-k-police-kashmi... 2. https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2019/a-third-of-misleading-posts-about-kashmir-come-from-pakistan-say-indian-fact-checkers/ https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2019/a-third-of-mislea... 3. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/pakistan-s-fake-news-plot-busted-twitter-suspends-50-bogus-handles-for-top-army-officials-1600194-2019-09-17 https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/pakistan-s-fake-news-p... 4. https://www.news18.com/news/india/as-rafale-adds-to-firepower-on-iaf-day-pak-uses-bot-armies-to-make-runawayforce_iaf-trend-on-indian-twitter-2338295.html https://www.news18.com/news/india/as-rafale-adds-to-firepowe... 5. https://qz.com/india/1727752/pakistan-bots-helped-gobackmodi-during-xi-jinpings-india-visit/ https://qz.com/india/1727752/pakistan-bots-helped-gobackmodi...
- tzjmetron 7y ago
  A lot of influential (Indian) people I follow on Twitter are indeed moving onto Mastodon (with stop-gap measures like apps to cross-post "toots" to Twitter during the transition). It is being done as a form of protest against @TwitterIndia in particular, who seem to be willy-nilly closing down valid accounts of "liberals" whilst protecting the accounts of people who openly call for ethnic cleansing, massacres, riots, lynching, and carrying out active propaganda against minorities - primarily against Muslims and Christians, and to a smaller extent against Sikhs. It is a seminal move in my opinion, and unless Twitter wishes a huge chunk of its sane demographic to move out completely, it had better start paying more attention to people's concerns. Forget Pakistan - deal with the bloodthirsty people in power in your own country. It's not about PR anymore - it's about the future integrity of the country itself.

sbmthakur 7y ago

> I sympathise with Twitter. India is number 1 on the list of countries that request for information on social media users and also in requesting censorship. And they have a good reason for that. This is from the article: The report said most of the blocked content was critical of the government's recent move to strip Indian-administered Kashmir of its semi-autonomous status, and were made after requests by the government itself. There was a massive misinformation campaign against India on Twitter in the aftermath of abrogating article 370. Many of these tweets originated from Pakistani handles[1][2]. They have even started impersonating top Indian military officials on Twitter[3]. And it seems that they are not just stopping with Kashmir. The propaganda campaign even covers Rafale and Tamil Nadu[4][5]. I agree with you that the article isn't particularly anti-India. However, the article should've provided some more context considering that a lot of BBC readers are from the West. 1. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/crpf-j-k-police-kashmir-1580061-2019-08-12 https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/crpf-j-k-police-kashmi... 2. https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2019/a-third-of-misleading-posts-about-kashmir-come-from-pakistan-say-indian-fact-checkers/ https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2019/a-third-of-mislea... 3. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/pakistan-s-fake-news-plot-busted-twitter-suspends-50-bogus-handles-for-top-army-officials-1600194-2019-09-17 https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/pakistan-s-fake-news-p... 4. https://www.news18.com/news/india/as-rafale-adds-to-firepower-on-iaf-day-pak-uses-bot-armies-to-make-runawayforce_iaf-trend-on-indian-twitter-2338295.html https://www.news18.com/news/india/as-rafale-adds-to-firepowe... 5. https://qz.com/india/1727752/pakistan-bots-helped-gobackmodi-during-xi-jinpings-india-visit/ https://qz.com/india/1727752/pakistan-bots-helped-gobackmodi...

tzjmetron 7y ago
A lot of influential (Indian) people I follow on Twitter are indeed moving onto Mastodon (with stop-gap measures like apps to cross-post "toots" to Twitter during the transition). It is being done as a form of protest against @TwitterIndia in particular, who seem to be willy-nilly closing down valid accounts of "liberals" whilst protecting the accounts of people who openly call for ethnic cleansing, massacres, riots, lynching, and carrying out active propaganda against minorities - primarily against Muslims and Christians, and to a smaller extent against Sikhs. It is a seminal move in my opinion, and unless Twitter wishes a huge chunk of its sane demographic to move out completely, it had better start paying more attention to people's concerns. Forget Pakistan - deal with the bloodthirsty people in power in your own country. It's not about PR anymore - it's about the future integrity of the country itself.