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Why would the Indian Govt need to place a spy in Twitter in order to find things it wants censored? It's more likely that this person was able to spy on Twitte
by secondcoming 4y ago
Why would the Indian Govt need to place a spy in Twitter in order to find things it wants censored?
It's more likely that this person was able to spy on Twitter users' communications, not only in India but all over the world (if we're to believe how bad Twitter's database security policies were)
- nr2x 4y agoGotta get those DMs.
- butterNaN 4y agoWhen I was on social media, Twitter was pretty much the only mainstream social media which had a sizable anti-rightwing userbase. Could be bacause of that?
- themitigating 4y agoDo you have any statistics showing that?
- tpmx 4y agoAnother valuable aspect to the Indian government could have been the chance of getting to the real identities of the "troublesome people" via IP/mobile 2FA phone number records.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoThis seems like the most likely reason. So they can jail people with anonymous accounts.
- girishso 4y ago> Why would the Indian Govt need to place a spy in Twitter in order to find things it wants censored? It’s more about targeting the person as an example, so others won’t dare say anything against the government.
- srean 4y agoSpot on.