X has received executive orders from the Indian government requiring X to block over 8,000 accounts in India, subject to potential penalties including significant fines and imprisonment of the company’s local employees. The orders include demands to block access in India to accounts belonging to international news organizations and prominent X users.

X is exploring all possible legal avenues available to the company. Unlike users located in India, X is restricted by Indian law in its ability to bring legal challenges against these executive orders. However, we encourage all users who are impacted by these blocking orders to seek appropriate relief from the courts.

25 points

I don’t use X, and I’ve heard some really shitty things about the corruption in Indian government. Screw all of them, imho

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i mean im not saying. im pro Sikh either, but Indias response and justification for the Assassination of Singh Nijjar was pretty fucked up, even if he didnt have the cleanest of histories.

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I think OP (FreedomAdvocate) might be Elon Musk himself. Check their account history. Every single post or comment is in defense of Musk, Tesla, or X.

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Either that or a bot operating on his behalf. 13 day old account with 500+ comments - either a bot or some fuckin’ loser with nothing better to do than lick boot.

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Strong bootlicker energy for sure

Also, trying to work politics into his content where it is unclear for.

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8 points

There are enough fan boys still salivating over the fascist prick that it doesn’t necessarily have to be him.

Also I’m not sure Lemmy has a large enough audience to satiate his endless need for external validation.

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Literally everything you just said is a lie, but whatever, leftists never let the truth get in the way of a good dogpile.

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Oh yea, this is definetly Elon.

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You got me! Well done, head down to your nearest Tesla dealership for a free car. Tell them the secret word “Nazi” to get the discount (and look really cool at the same time).

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This is a rare W for X, assuming what they say about their ability to sue the government is true. Modi’s government is far right, so if X is simply politically motivated, there’s no reason for them to make this post. They certainly could still be politically motivated, but maybe that’s limited to the US.

I’m still very much not a fan of X, but I do like it when SM platforms reveal government BS.

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in other words, even if musk didn’t want to have them blocked, he couldn’t do much about it without bribing everyone who gave the orders or something drastic like that

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He can always take the principled stance and remove access to the entire platform in India instead, which would make the censorship attempts painstakingly noticeable, and may incentivise users to ask for a change in policy and/or use VPNs for unfettered access. I doubt Musk will do that.

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in other words, even if musk didn’t want to have them blocked

Why do you go straight to anti-Musk conspiracy theories? This has been X’s - and Elon Musks - position from the start. It’s the very reason why he bought Twitter in the first place - to stop the erosion of free speech on social media.

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It’s the very reason why he bought Twitter in the first place - to stop the erosion of free speech on social media.

you know I thought I misread that for a moment and I thought you meant to say that he wanted to erode free speech, but that’s not what ur saying

???

anti-musk conspiracy theories

???

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-18 points

You specifically made out that Musk would want this censorship, which flies against every action we have seen from him.

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“X bans 8000 users who oppose the government”

Lemmy users: “Fuck elmo, fascist Nazi”

“Indian government forces X to ban 8000 users who oppose the government at threat of banning X in India”

Lemmy users: “Fuck elmo, fascist Nazi”

“X challenges Indian government in court over order to ban 8000 users who oppose the government”

Lemmy users: “Fuck elmo, fascist Nazi”

It would be funny if it wasn’t so obvious how politically captured Lemmy is already.

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It’s weird how you say politically captured but you say nothing of Reddit and all of it’s Trump bullshit, you’re just full of bullshit all nonstop aren’t you, are you from fucking Russia my dude because you’re doing their job for free

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Both things are true. Reddit is politically captured. Lemmy is politically captured. Etc.

X is doing the right thing here. X also sucks in a myriad other ways. Both things are true.

Don’t pick sides people, only side with the truth.

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Did you just say Reddit is captured by trump bullshit? As in……you think that Reddit is right leaning?! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

I’ve made many comments about how politically and ideologically captured Reddit is. Lemmy is too, with the same political bias and ideologies.

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You put “freedom” in your name and you think WE are politically captured? You guys are ridiculous.

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Randomly generated username my friend :)

Also Lemmy as a whole is absolutely politically captured. One read of these comments shows that. Also hilariously Lemmy was literally made by hardcore communist ideologists, and they still own and develop it. Right from day 1 it was politically captured, and the influx of far left users and the extreme censorship and hatred of anything even right of far-left hasn’t changed.

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Are you seriously trying to convince me “Freedomadvocate” was randomly assigned to you? Seriously?

Nobody believes you. Keep your lies small, simple, plausible and easy to remember. You are failing on the plausible part.

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Lemmy is just one front end. Nobody is forcing you to use it.

There are mbin servers

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