Washington: India ordered X to block more than 8,000 accounts, said the platform on Thursday, May 9, adding that it was reluctantly to comply with what it called “censorship” imposed by the government.
This decision seems to be part of the radical repression of India targeting the accounts of social media of Pakistani politicians, celebrities and media organizations in the midst of increased tensions and fatal confrontations between nuclear arms.
The order, which, according to X, includes requests to block international press organizations and other leading users, occurs a day after Meta has prohibited a leading leading Muslims on Instagram in India at the request of New Delhi.
“X has received decrees from the Indian government demanding that X blocks more than 8,000 accounts in India, subject to potential sanctions, including large fines and the imprisonment of local employees of the company,” said the World Affairs Team of the Site in a press release.
He added that in most cases, the government had not specified the accounts of the accounts violated the Indian laws and, in many others, it has provided no evidence or justification of the blocks.
The platform belonging to Elon Musk said she disagreed with the requests, but it had started the process to retain the specified accounts in India.
“The blocking of whole accounts is not only useless, it is equivalent to the censorship of the existing and future content, and is contrary to the fundamental right of freedom of expression,” said the press release.
“This is not an easy decision, but keeping the platform accessible in India is vital for the ability of the Indians to access information.”
X said it couldn't make public Indian decrees due to legal restrictions, but that encouraged affected users to ask “an appropriate reparation for courts”.
This decision arrives in the middle Ferocious artillery exchanges between India and Pakistan It killed more than 50 people, two weeks after New Delhi blamed Islamabad to have supported a Landy attack on tourists On the Indian side of the disputed Muslim majority region of cashmere.
Pakistan rejects the charge.
