NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday (Jun 13) denied claims it had threatened to shut down Twitter inside the country if it did not block accounts critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's governme
India on Tuesday denied claims it had threatened to shut down Twitter inside the country if it did not block accounts critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.
Dorsey told YouTube chat show Breaking Points that authorities had threatened to"shut down Twitter in India" as well as raid the homes of its employees, unless his company yielded to their demands. In March, the platform blocked the accounts of several journalists during the manhunt for a radical Sikh preacher in the northern state of Punjab.
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