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by Dylan16807 1887 days ago
Where do you draw the line? Lots of people would say that heavily silencing government criticism is evil. Not heinous evil, but can't we be mad at boring evil?
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But this isn't "heavily silencing government criticism". Only 50ish tweets were blocked, for containing misinformation that was intended to cause a panic. That's illegal per Indian laws. Criticizing the government is not illegal, and is allowed. If the government were really "heavily silencing government criticism", we would be seeing millions of tweets and accounts being blocked and censored. Instead, it's a narrow targeted set that did things like use images from other circumstances to make it seem like they were part of the COVID situation.
I'm not really focused on this incident, but the idea that it can be a serious issue for major platforms to control speech.
I didn't say not to be mad at anything, it just seems absurd to compare murdering innocents to twitter hiding tweets in one region.