{"id":543678,"date":"2023-01-26T02:42:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T23:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/musks-twitter-faces-questions-over-modi-documentary-censorship\/"},"modified":"2023-01-26T02:42:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T23:42:18","slug":"musks-twitter-faces-questions-over-modi-documentary-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/musks-twitter-faces-questions-over-modi-documentary-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"#Musk&#8217;s Twitter faces questions over Modi documentary censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af21b1d03f5e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af21b1d03f5e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/musks-twitter-faces-questions-over-modi-documentary-censorship\/#Musks_Twitter_faces_questions_over_Modi_documentary_censorship\" >Musk&#8217;s Twitter faces questions over Modi documentary censorship<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Musks_Twitter_faces_questions_over_Modi_documentary_censorship\"><\/span>Musk&#8217;s Twitter faces questions over Modi documentary censorship<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">Elon Musk is facing allegations of being complicit with state censorship after <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared to take sides with India\u2019s government in a turbulent free speech fight over a documentary critical of the country\u2019s prime minister.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The fight revolves around a new documentary from the BBC that focuses on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, delving into accusations that the politician allowed religious-based violence against Muslims. India is majority Hindu with a Muslim minority.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Modi\u2019s government said it has ordered social media platforms including Twitter to censor posts about the documentary, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KanchanGupta\/status\/1616745166290976769\">which it calls<\/a> \u201chostile propaganda and anti-India garbage,\u201d and Twitter appears to have complied by blocking certain tweets from being seen within India, according to screenshots of notices posted this week by Twitter users.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThis Tweet from @derekobrienmp has been withheld in India in response to a legal demand,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/derekobrienmp\/status\/1616669755938852864\">read one notice<\/a> posted by Derek O\u2019Brien, a member of the Indian parliament. The notice appeared in place of a tweet about the documentary, according to O\u2019Brien\u2019s screenshot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Musk, the tech billionaire who bought Twitter last year and has called himself a free speech absolutist, acknowledged the subject in a tweet Wednesday while making no promises about what he\u2019ll do.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cFirst I\u2019ve heard,\u201d Musk <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1618319479662055426\">wrote in response to a question<\/a> from Canadian lawyer David Freiheit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt is not possible for me to fix every aspect of Twitter worldwide overnight, while still running Tesla and SpaceX, among other things,\u201d he added, referring to the multiple companies where he is CEO.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Musk\u2019s brief answer was in contrast to the sometimes-detailed, personalized responses he has given to other people who complain to him about Twitter. \u201cComplaint hotline operator online! Please mention your complaints below,\u201d he <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1590383937284870145\">tweeted<\/a> in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for additional comment, but a backlash is building against the San Francisco company\u2019s apparent decision to comply with India\u2019s demand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cSelf-proclaimed free-speech absolutists like Elon Musk must walk the talk. By withholding Twitter posts on [the] BBC documentary, Musk has made clear that for him, profits matter more than human rights,\u201d Rasheed Ahmed, executive director of the Indian American Muslim Council, an advocacy organization, said in a statement Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Opponents of Modi have for years accused him of inaction in the face of violent Hindu nationalism, including <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-india-modi-idUSBRE89S03X20121029\">the massacre of more than 1,000 Muslims<\/a> in 2002, when he was head of the Indian state of Gujarat. Modi <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-india-election-modi-idUSBREA3F14W20140416\">has called the accusations a smear<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Actor John Cusack was among those criticizing Musk, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johncusack\/status\/1618328003691577345\">calling<\/a> him a \u201creal profile in cowardice.\u201d Cusack, a board member of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, in 2016 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/09\/14\/magazine\/john-cusack-interview.html\">co-wrote a book<\/a> on government surveillance with Indian novelist Arundhati Roy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Matthew Yglesias, a journalist whose daily <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>letter is <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2023\/01\/11\/matt-yglesias-slow-boring-in-bidens-washington\/\">popular<\/a> inside the Biden administration, said he feared what Musk might do for other hard-line figures such as Chinese leader Xi Jinping.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIf he\u2019s willing to do this for the Indian prime minister consider Xi\u2019s influence,\u201d he <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattyglesias\/status\/1618035014519918592\">wrote<\/a>. (China is <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/06\/02\/musk-twitter-tesla-china-impact\/\">critical<\/a> to Tesla\u2019s car business.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Indian authorities continued a crackdown on the BBC documentary Wednesday, as police in Delhi detained students <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/india\/defiant-indian-students-hold-more-screenings-bbc-documentary-modi-2023-01-25\/\">as they gathered to watch the motion picture<\/a>, called \u201cIndia: The Modi Question,\u201d Reuters reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It is not unheard of for tech companies to block content locally in response to an order from a court or other authority. In <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transparency.twitter.com\/en\/reports\/removal-requests.html#2021-jul-dec\">a transparency report<\/a> from before Musk bought Twitter, the company said it received 47,572 local demands to remove content during the second half of 2021; 97% of them were from five countries, the company said: Japan, Russia, South Korea, Turkey and India. Within India, Twitter said it <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transparency.twitter.com\/en\/reports\/countries\/in.html\">complied<\/a> 5.6% of the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Lumen, a Harvard University-based database that collects government censorship requests issued to tech platforms, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lumendatabase.org\/blog_entries\/notice-in-lumen-reveals-indian-governments-attempt-to-remove-references-to-bbcs-documentary-titled-india-the-modi-question\">said<\/a> Monday in a blog post that it had received <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lumendatabase.org\/notices\/30390604?access_token=Vbprc_ia6fmjek5GOsunAg#\">a copy of India\u2019s order<\/a> to Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">India\u2019s order also applied to YouTube, and YouTube removed some copies of the documentary from its website and app. But YouTube said it acted in response to a copyright-related demand, and on Wednesday the BBC said it also had requested the removal of clips from websites and platforms it believed infringed on BBC\u2019s copyright.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Internet Archive also removed copies of the documentary, showing instead a notice that items \u201cmay be taken down for various reasons.\u201d The archive did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But the BBC said it did not make any similar request to Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe BBC has not asked Twitter to remove any content relating to the documentary,\u201d the British broadcaster said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The BBC has broadcast the documentary only in the United Kingdom and has not licensed it to any third-party streaming services so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Raman Chima, a former Google employee who\u2019s now a lawyer for Access Now, a human rights organization, said the Indian government\u2019s actions show human rights are under threat in India.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe IT Rules are being exploited, handing authorities license to pressure platforms to censor content in \u2018emergency\u2019 cases,\u201d he said in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tame_wildcard\/status\/1617530024634241025\">a Twitter thread<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">\u201cThese takedowns underscore the rapid expansion of state censorship in India,\u201d Chima added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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