{"id":2370,"date":"2023-06-21T08:01:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T02:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2023-06-21T08:01:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T02:31:34","slug":"elon-musk-on-why-twitter-has-to-obey-what-governments-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/?p=2370","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk on why Twitter has to ‘obey’ what governments say"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Twitter owner Elon Musk was asked about former CEO Jack Dorsey\u2019s claims on being threatened by the Indian government. Earlier this month, Dorsey accused the Indian government of issuing threats to shut down the company in India. Musk, in response to a question regarding Dorsey\u2019s claims, said that Twitter has little choice but to obey governments. \u201cTwitter doesn’t have a choice but to obey local governments. If we don’t obey local government laws then we will get shut down,\u201d Musk said after meeting the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He further said that, \u201cThe best we can do is to follow the laws in any given country.\u201d He also said that it is \u201cimpossible for us to do more than that.\u201d The owner of Twitter further said that, \u201cOne cannot just apply America to Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n


What Dorsey had claimed<\/b><\/p>\n

In an interview earlier this month, Dorsey alleged that during the farmer\u2019s protest in 2021, Indian government had issued several threats and wanted to take down critical content from the social media platform. Dorsey was asked if governments interfered in running of Twitter. \u201cIndia, for example, was a country that had many requests around the farmers’ protests, around particular journalists that were critical of the government,\u201d he said.
He also said that India is a large market but the threats \u201cmanifested in ways such as: ‘we will shut Twitter down in India’ – which is a very large market for us; ‘we will raid the homes of your employees,’ which they did; ‘we will shut down your offices if you don’t follow suit.’ And this is India, a democratic country.\u201d
The Indian government had rejected Dorsey\u2019s claims and termed them as an \u201coutright lie.\u201d Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a tweet said that, \u201cThis is an outright lie… Perhaps an attempt to brush out that very dubious period of Twitter’s history. No one went to jail nor was Twitter ‘shutdown’. Dorsey’s Twitter regime had a problem accepting the sovereignty of Indian law. It behaved as if the laws of India did not apply to it.\u201d<\/div>\n