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These aren’t blocks issued by a court order where a judge has validated whether the law was broken or not - these are journalists being suspended at behest of t
by captn3m0 3y ago
These aren’t blocks issued by a court order where a judge has validated whether the law was broken or not - these are journalists being suspended at behest of the government. Twitter has fought such blocks in the court before. People expected the same from a “free speech” Twitter.
Recent IT amendment rules, mentioned in the article, make safe harbor much harder, and the older Twitter would have been one of the few voices resisting it. I’d be very interested to see a comparison of Twitter’s Transparency reports pre and post Elon.
IFF has a nice primer on the new rules: https://internetfreedom.in/public-brief-on-the-it-amendment-rules-2022/ https://internetfreedom.in/public-brief-on-the-it-amendment-..., and recent updates, which include a Fact Checking Unit: https://internetfreedom.in/public-brief-it-amendment-rules-2023/ https://internetfreedom.in/public-brief-it-amendment-rules-2...
- thunkshift1 3y agoCourt order is us way of doing things.. not necessary everyone has to prescribe it that way