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India will be next to ban Twitter. And their govt. is not unpopular, nor will that decision be insignificant to the price of Twitter stock.

Hamuko 5y ago
>And their govt. is not unpopular Will they actually remain "not unpopular" if they ban Twitter?
- anovikov 5y ago
  Can Twitter be a concern at all for vast majority of Indian voters?
  - boruto 5y ago
    Nope. May be Facebook ban can have some impact.
- factorialboy 5y ago
  Twitter ban is a non factor except for a minority of India's western educated elite. Most Indian users will happily migrate to whichever platform emerges the winner after Twitter gets the boot.
- perryizgr8 5y ago
  The govt is unpopular already among the demographic that uses Twitter. So it won't make much difference.
k__ 5y ago
Interesting. To me, India seemed like the most reasonable in that region.
- notsureaboutpg 5y ago
  I can't imagine why, as an Indian. This is the government who pays people to troll for the ruling party on Twitter/Whatsapp all the time and trend irrelevant, ridiculous, fake news. Every other neighboring government neighboring (except China) is more reasonable in regards to social media.
- factorialboy 5y ago
  Well, this region includes China, Afghanistan and Pakistan .. thus in comparison India does look most reasonable.
baybal2 5y ago
Western dotcoms really need gang up together, and look at creating a solution for "unbannability." The Facebook, Amazon, Google hosts a double digit portion of the Internet, and can take an even bigger part of it hostage. They can easily force countries to either block Internet completely, or bend over.
- IncRnd 5y ago
  That is literally the definition of someone calling for companies to act as gangsters and engage in racketeering.
- rajivjain 5y ago
  It’s not that simple. Twitter has business, operations, and employees in India. Twitter can choose to stop doing business in India. This decision will hurt both Twitter and Indian economy. It’s not in the interest of both parties to keep escalating.
  - baybal2 5y ago
    > It’s not in the interest of both parties to keep escalating. I think it clearly is. Modi is set to Robinhood them. If options are set to doing that, and winning the election, or not doing that, and loosing, he will certainly do so. If he will be set to lose it if he not bans them, or bans them, but still lose, he will be way more pliable. Way more.
- Sebb767 5y ago
  How? Honest question. These companies are large, but they don't have too much power in these countries. Especially China has a lot of internal alternatives (Aliexpress cloud and Baidu for example), so external pressure will really only help them. Case in point: Huawei's Playstore ban - this would probably have killed the phone division of a western country. Then there's the problem of biting the (kid's) hand that builds your hardware and/or servers and the one that pays your bill (AWS customers are not going to be happy when their Chinese customers are blocked). Irrespective of the discussion on whether the tech giants taking such massive political influence is a good thing, I simply don't see how they could.
iKevinShah 5y ago
India will be next to ban Twitter if Twitter decides to NOT abide by social media laws made by the country government which other social media companies have promised to / are working towards. Sorry, Key context was missing. Personal opinion: I do not think they'll outright ban it, if they do, there will be some change in public opinion for sure.

Hamuko 5y ago

>And their govt. is not unpopular Will they actually remain "not unpopular" if they ban Twitter?

anovikov 5y ago
Can Twitter be a concern at all for vast majority of Indian voters?
- boruto 5y ago
  Nope. May be Facebook ban can have some impact.
factorialboy 5y ago
Twitter ban is a non factor except for a minority of India's western educated elite. Most Indian users will happily migrate to whichever platform emerges the winner after Twitter gets the boot.
perryizgr8 5y ago
The govt is unpopular already among the demographic that uses Twitter. So it won't make much difference.

k__ 5y ago

Interesting. To me, India seemed like the most reasonable in that region.

notsureaboutpg 5y ago
I can't imagine why, as an Indian. This is the government who pays people to troll for the ruling party on Twitter/Whatsapp all the time and trend irrelevant, ridiculous, fake news. Every other neighboring government neighboring (except China) is more reasonable in regards to social media.
factorialboy 5y ago
Well, this region includes China, Afghanistan and Pakistan .. thus in comparison India does look most reasonable.

baybal2 5y ago

Western dotcoms really need gang up together, and look at creating a solution for "unbannability." The Facebook, Amazon, Google hosts a double digit portion of the Internet, and can take an even bigger part of it hostage. They can easily force countries to either block Internet completely, or bend over.

IncRnd 5y ago
That is literally the definition of someone calling for companies to act as gangsters and engage in racketeering.
rajivjain 5y ago
It’s not that simple. Twitter has business, operations, and employees in India. Twitter can choose to stop doing business in India. This decision will hurt both Twitter and Indian economy. It’s not in the interest of both parties to keep escalating.
- baybal2 5y ago
  > It’s not in the interest of both parties to keep escalating. I think it clearly is. Modi is set to Robinhood them. If options are set to doing that, and winning the election, or not doing that, and loosing, he will certainly do so. If he will be set to lose it if he not bans them, or bans them, but still lose, he will be way more pliable. Way more.
Sebb767 5y ago
How? Honest question. These companies are large, but they don't have too much power in these countries. Especially China has a lot of internal alternatives (Aliexpress cloud and Baidu for example), so external pressure will really only help them. Case in point: Huawei's Playstore ban - this would probably have killed the phone division of a western country. Then there's the problem of biting the (kid's) hand that builds your hardware and/or servers and the one that pays your bill (AWS customers are not going to be happy when their Chinese customers are blocked). Irrespective of the discussion on whether the tech giants taking such massive political influence is a good thing, I simply don't see how they could.

iKevinShah 5y ago

India will be next to ban Twitter if Twitter decides to NOT abide by social media laws made by the country government which other social media companies have promised to / are working towards. Sorry, Key context was missing. Personal opinion: I do not think they'll outright ban it, if they do, there will be some change in public opinion for sure.