The most recent example was the blocking of accounts critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, two days before the elections held in Turkey last Sunday.
“If we have a choice of either our people going to prison or us complying with the laws, we will comply with the laws.”
This justification came after Twitter removed content related to a BBC documentary that was highly critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which was blocked in January by the Indian government.
Among the content removed by Twitter were comments by a local parliamentarian.
Twitter’s acquiescence to autocratic or non-liberal regimes is not an exaggeration by critics of the social network.
Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people,” Musk wrote on Twitter in April 2022.
In December, he inquired whether Schiff had approved “hidden state censorship in direct violation of the Constitution of the United States.” »
