Government Of India Warns Twitter. Twitter out?

[Tshering22]

And this is where the counter-narrative opportunity has struck- the "fifth-generation hybrid information warfare" Generals should use this opportunity to "inform" the West and the world about the legal debacle of Twitter against "a journalists' free speech whose brother was targeted by terrorists". Articles and interviews in Fox/other RW outlets is a must- the same way Razdan's folly was covered as some sort of national "saazish" to befool her in the NYT.

For that to happen, Indian RW establishments will have to build their network with the likes of Fox News. Such a network barely exists. However, there is a potential downside to this; we might end up depending too much on trying to explain our way into Washington DC.

That can be a problem. You see, the present dispensation in White House as well as their lower level officials are well aware of our internal situation. This negative image is purposely created to generate artificial pressure on us, that can later be used as a geopolitical leverage.

It is important to convey clearly that Washington is not a stakeholder to whatever happens inside India. This requires blowing hot and cold on them in the following ways:

The hot:

1. Minimize their participation in anything that requires us to deal with an internationally-funded organization of any type within Indian borders. This could be an NGO, a Church, or a separatist group for all we care;
2. Mercilessly punish them for violating local laws & if DC intervenes, go to (1);
3. IPC has provision to protect the reputation of citizens, organizations, or public body such as the government; when someone slanders the government (usually targeting 1 or 2 ministers), the ruling government can file a defamation case against the media entity if they fail to produce the proof.
   • Freedom of speech in India is only to express opinion & not to defame someone without proof - the govt should use this liberally (all puns intended);
4. Raise our concerns of racial killings, BLM, treatment of latin American immigrants, women & children at the borders, etc., every time we meet with the US Secretary of State whenever they raise "human rights issues" in India; It cannot be a mirror image but be disguised as a threat to Indian establishments & Indian diaspora living there;
5. Scrap allowing FDI in private media channels, including through foreign-backed, Indian-registered entities. If the company/NGO/Foundation/Trust does not originate in India without any foreign donations, then it can't open a news channel. Period;

The cold:

1. Prioritize US investments in other sectors such as heavy engineering, fintech, services, IT, AI-ML, etc. Ease the mechanism for their companies similar to the Japan+ format;
2. Encourage American angel investors to fund new tech in upcoming fields, but developing a national level integrated university competition for both public and private university students to showcase their innovations/inventions - the US uses that model & would be happy to partake there;

The way to deal with Americans is to offer them a lollipop of monetary deals but close the other backdoors into the country. We can't do what the Chinese do; but at least these things can be legally implemented in a democracy.

 

[ezsasa]

Confirmation bias from me, but still CEO’s statement is a statement .
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Netflix Shares fell 20% wiping out $45b mcap.
CEO is frustrated they aren't able to crack India.

 

[ezsasa]

campaign for 2024 elections already started..
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Kapil Sharma’s (@KapilSharmaK9) new show on @netflix is a very well-planned propaganda against PM Shri
@narendramodi. He kept making fun of PM Modi, mocked his style, and praised Dr. Manmohan Singh. It’s a boring political motivated show.

 

[ezsasa]

Delhi High Court has sought response of social media giant Twitter Inc. in a plea challenging the suspension of a user account "@Bharadwajspeaks". Advocate @raghav355 argued that Twitter has been suspending accounts at its "own sweet will".

 

[ezsasa]

This is interesting. INC is not happy with SM companies.
ofcourse this could mean many things.
problem is that even if BJP takes the bait and proposes a law, RG will come and oppose it later saying "freedom of expression" is being suppressed.
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Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi raises issue of "rising danger of social media being abused to hack our democracy" in Lok Sabha.

"Global companies like Facebook & Twitter are used increasingly to shape political narratives by leaders, parties & their proxies," she says.

Sonia Gandhi in Lok Sabha: Global social media companies aren't providing a level playing field to all parties. The blatant manner in which social harmony is being disturbed by Facebook with the connivance of the ruling establishment is dangerous for our democracy.

Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi in Lok Sabha: I urge Govt to put an end to the systematic influence and interference of Facebook & other social media giants in the electoral politics of the world's largest democracy. This is beyond parties & politics.

 

[Nationalist Manasvi Papa]

This is interesting. INC is not happy with SM companies.
ofcourse this could mean many things.
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Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi raises issue of "rising danger of social media being abused to hack our democracy" in Lok Sabha.

"Global companies like Facebook & Twitter are used increasingly to shape political narratives by leaders, parties & their proxies," she says.

Sonia Gandhi in Lok Sabha: Global social media companies aren't providing a level playing field to all parties. The blatant manner in which social harmony is being disturbed by Facebook with the connivance of the ruling establishment is dangerous for our democracy.

Only good thing she has said in years.


We need an India specific social media platform asap.

 

[Knowitall]

This is interesting. INC is not happy with SM companies.
ofcourse this could mean many things.
problem is that even if BJP takes the bait and proposes a law, RG will come and oppose it later saying "freedom of expression" is being suppressed.
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Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi raises issue of "rising danger of social media being abused to hack our democracy" in Lok Sabha.

"Global companies like Facebook & Twitter are used increasingly to shape political narratives by leaders, parties & their proxies," she says.

Sonia Gandhi in Lok Sabha: Global social media companies aren't providing a level playing field to all parties. The blatant manner in which social harmony is being disturbed by Facebook with the connivance of the ruling establishment is dangerous for our democracy.

Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi in Lok Sabha: I urge Govt to put an end to the systematic influence and interference of Facebook & other social media giants in the electoral politics of the world's largest democracy. This is beyond parties & politics.

Know when to fight and and know when to talk.

Being pragmatic is a skill in itself. I say BJP arranges a meeting between INC and themselves and both of them invite their respective alliances too.

They all sit down and chalk a plan for a alternate system for SM or heavy regulation on SM platforms.

I expect little to no resistance from congress as SM has turned out to be a major factor in their fall.

BJP needs to take this opportunity to create a all party front of sorts which takes the public into confidence and nails these platforms before they get too strong.

 

[Love Charger]

Know when to fight and and know when to talk.

Being pragmatic is a skill in itself. I say BJP arranges a meeting between INC and themselves and both of them invite their respective alliances too.

They all sit down and chalk a plan for a alternate system for SM or heavy regulation on SM platforms.

I expect little to no resistance from congress as SM has turned out to be a major factor in their fall.

BJP needs to take this opportunity to create a all party front of sorts which takes the public into confidence and nails these platforms before they get too strong.

Kuch nai hoga, bjp is apolitical party mate
Social media has benefitted them very much, they won't do it.

 

[ezsasa]

Know when to fight and and know when to talk.

Being pragmatic is a skill in itself. I say BJP arranges a meeting between INC and themselves and both of them invite their respective alliances too.

They all sit down and chalk a plan for a alternate system for SM or heavy regulation on SM platforms.

I expect little to no resistance from congress as SM has turned out to be a major factor in their fall.

BJP needs to take this opportunity to create a all party front of sorts which takes the public into confidence and nails these platforms before they get too strong.

yes, no harm in talking and get a parliament resolution passed based on what she said.
whether or not a law needs to be created can be dealt with later.

 

[Knowitall]

Kuch nai hoga, bjp is apolitical party mate
Social media has benefitted them very much, they won't do it.

SM used to help the back in 2014.

Today is a completely different story most RW accounts are either banned or suppressed.

Heck twitter was fucking with our previous IT minister in broad daylight and the only think he could do was moan about it.

A new indigenous platform will a boost for RW which indirectly will result in a boost for BJP.

So I see no problems with it.

 

[Love Charger]

yes, no harm in talking and get a parliament resolution passed based on what she said.
whether or not a law needs to be created can be dealt with later.

I agree ezsasa ji but i just don't feel bjp will even remotely agree to do it.
They think its helping them , thye won't do it .
Bloody politicians they are , and what type of regulations Congress proposes that too needs to be seen.

 

[warmachine541]

SM used to help the back in 2014.

Today is a completely different story most RW accounts are either banned or suppressed.

Heck twitter was fucking with our previous IT minister in broad daylight and the only think he could do was moan about it.

A new indigenous platform will a boost for RW which indirectly will result in a boost for BJP.

So I see no problems with it.

Even if we do come up with an indian app, what makes you think the govt in power will not misuse it.

BJP abused the twitter platform and got fucked for that (SSR bots etc...).

All political parties benefit from twitter. Congress is only complaining because they are screwed in the SM narrative.

 

[HitmanBlood]

Some platforms such as Youtube would be hard to replace in short time but twitter, facebook, Instagram are easy targets.

We should chalk out a plan to replace Gmail and Google search in long term. Also there is an urgent need to replace Microsoft Windows with an Indian made Linux distro in government offices. Cloud hosting companies like AWS and MS Azure also needs Indian replacement.

 

[Love Charger]

Even if we do come up with an indian app, what makes you think the govt in power will not misuse it.

BJP abused the twitter platform and got fucked for that (SSR bots etc...).

All political parties benefit from twitter. Congress is only complaining because they are screwed in the SM narrative.

And when ever Congress comes to power , will they not stifle opposition?
Thye are masters at this game

 

[Nationalist Manasvi Papa]

Those who are saying we don't need indigenous social media, what if what happened to trump happens to our PM??(already they are fucking with our army's and minister's accounts)

 

[HitmanBlood]

Even if we do come up with an indian app, what makes you think the govt in power will not misuse it.

BJP abused the twitter platform and got fucked for that (SSR bots etc...).

All political parties benefit from twitter. Congress is only complaining because they are screwed in the SM narrative.

Intresting point.

Indian government can misuse their power to control social media in their favour. Still IMO this is better scenario than a foreign intelligence agency controlling political narrative in India. Also data is the new oil. Those that control the data control the population. Right now we are giving away a huge database of Indian people to some CIA/NSA controlled algorithm.

If we keep going down this path of giving our data to CIA they will use this against us in the form of a very sophisticated propaganda, tailor made for Indians based on all our data. This propaganda will be more effective than any propaganda we have ever seen. It could be used to promote western business interests or it could be used for regime change.

 

[warmachine541]

And when ever Congress comes to power , will they not stifle opposition?
Thye are masters at this game

I meant whichever party is in power.

Even if Congress comes to power, I am 1000% sure they will stop at nothing to destroy BJP ESPECIALLY RSS i.e. their main cadre.

 

[warmachine541]

Intresting point.

Indian government can misuse their power to control social media in their favour. Still IMO this is better scenario than a foreign intelligence agency controlling political narrative in India. Also data is the new oil. Those that control the data control the population. Right now we are giving away a huge database of Indian people to some CIA/NSA controlled algorithm.

If we keep going down this path of giving our data to CIA they will use this against us in the form of a very sophisticated propaganda, tailor made for Indians based on all our data. This propaganda will be more effective than any propaganda we have ever seen. It could be used to promote western business interests or it could be used for regime change.

This is where the need for a indian NSA comes into picture.

 

[Knowitall]

Even if we do come up with an indian app, what makes you think the govt in power will not misuse it.

BJP abused the twitter platform and got fucked for that (SSR bots etc...).

All political parties benefit from twitter. Congress is only complaining because they are screwed in the SM narrative.

It either our govt or the the west. The choice is yours.

At the end of the day our govt will still depend on our votes. The west not so much.

 

[warmachine541]

It either our govt or the the west. The choice is yours.

At the end of the day our govt will still depend on our votes. The west not so much.

And what will happen if you criticize the govt on their platform. We all know what happens in Russia and China.

Those platforms too were made under the pretext of removing foreign propaganda.