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by 1cvmask 1968 days ago
What do we do about the Internet companies who are also censorship platforms. Should India censor the censorers as well?

The authoritarian government of English Prime Minister David Cameron threatened to cut off the Blackbery messenger service during the London riots/protests.

https://www.prweek.com/article/1084907/david-cameron-comes-f...

The French government of authoritarian Macron (the aspirational dictator):

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/13/tech/french-hate-speech-s...

Google (Youtube) censoring an academic censorship conference:

http://www.schoolinfosystem.org/2021/02/04/not-the-onion-aca...

So we should have a discussion on authoritarian companies like we do on authoritarian governments like the UK and France and Germany where there is no free speech.

And lets not forget the authoritarian (under both Obama and Trump) US and UK governments in torturing the news publisher Julian Assange.