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There is also the context that Twitter refused to remove blatantly false and deliberately incendiary tweets during the farmers' protests in which the Red Fort w
by msravi 5y ago
There is also the context that Twitter refused to remove blatantly false and deliberately incendiary tweets during the farmers' protests in which the Red Fort was breached similar to the Capitol Hill riots.
Also, more recently, Twitter has refused to remove clearly manipulated media intended to inflame Hindu-Muslim communal riots.
- kumarvvr 5y agoSomehow this does not register well with free speech enthusiasts. As much as twitter removes or labels one set of media, it also refuses to remove or label another set of media. It is unfortunate that what is true and false has devolved into the hands of global corporates, whose interests and ideology is often different from the environment it operates in.
- sangnoir 5y ago> Somehow this does not register well with free speech enthusiasts It registers fine. What you may be glossing over is that Twitter itself has free speech - so it is free to do this, unless you have something akin to a fairness doctrine.
- random314 5y agoPlacement of a flag on an empty red fort is simply not comparable to a sustained attack and attempt to kill legislators on Capitol hill.
- justshowpost 5y agoMostly peaceful, I'd say.
- truth_ 5y agoThe Red Fort Breach as you call it is nowhere similar with the Capitol riot. Not from any meaningful dimension. The Red Fort is merely a tourist spot from where the PM addresses the nation on Independence Days. On the other hand, the Capitol is a significant seat of power in the US. The Capitol was breached when the vote was being counted to confirm the win of a Presidential candidate, to stop it. One breach was to undermine democracy itself. Another was to merely attract attention to their cause.