Twitter doesn’t have a choice but to obey local government: Elon MuskTwitter chief Elon Musk said in June last year that the social media platform has no choice but to follow the local laws in any given country or risk being shut down.Musk’s comments came in response to questions regarding Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s allegations that the Indian government had threatened the social networking platform with raids if it did not take down critical content during the farmers’ protests against the three farm laws.”Twitter doesn’t have a choice but to obey local governments. If we don’t obey local government laws then we will get shut down,” he had told reporters after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New York.Dorsey, who quit as Twitter CEO in 2021, had in an interview claimed that during his tenure as CEO, Twitter received requests from the Indian government to block accounts covering the 2020-2021 farmers’ protests and those critical of the government.”It manifested 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; and this is India, a democratic country,” Dorsey said.(With PTI inputs)
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