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0 pointscolinmhayes4y ago0 comments

What can twitter do? Close the site in India? That accomplishes nothing. If they don't censor their local employees would be put in jail and they would be banned. Neither seems like it would be any better.

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gonehome4y ago

> "What can twitter do? Close the site in India? That accomplishes nothing."

Sure - if it came to that, try and get Indians access anyway via VPNs, making it easy to access over Tor, helping them get on Twitter anyway.

You can accomplish something by not sacrificing your principles. Doing the right thing matters when it's hard. Anyone can do the right thing when it's also the easy thing.

I'm not a crazed absolutist - I'm pragmatic, I just find western companies repeatedly capitulating to authoritarian countries very frustrating. People have given up their lives to fight for these things and western companies can't even risk getting kicked out?

South Park's Band In China episode was right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_in_China

colinmhayesOP4y ago

People using VPNs can already access the censored tweets. They're only censored in India. I understand the sacrificing your principles argument, but imo the only principle that matters is do what you can to make the world a better place. I don't see how shutting down twitter in india accomplishes that. In fact I'd say shutting down is unprincipled because it deprives literally a billion people of something they might enjoy.

Dma54rhs4y ago

The very same values are not popular in Twitters home country USA anymore, why do you think it's a corporations tree to die under? Ban Tweets and move on.

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