In India, Musk’s Twitter risks opening floodgates on hate speech and extremism
“The law of the land is supreme, Twitter must play by the rules,” India's electronics and information technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said last year. "Whoever is a citizen of India and whoever stays in India will have to abide by the laws of the country."The firings that Musk has carried out at Twitter will have a deeper impact in India, said Prateek Waghre, policy director for the Internet Freedom Foundation, a New Delhi-based group that promotes digital rights and freedoms. “There is no full consideration of how complex it is to operate a social media platform. The complex political realities…
