Why Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Is Clashing with India's Government
Jack Dorsey speaks during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Friday, June 4, 2021.witter co-founder Jack Dorsey accused the Indian government of censoring content and threatening to shut the platform down while he was CEO of the company, during an interview on Monday. “India, for example, was a country that had many requests around the farmers’ protests, around particular journalists that were critical of the government,” DorseyReferring to the farmers’ protests in 2021, when farmers opposed new agriculture laws that were later repealed by the government, he said: “It manifested in ways such as: ‘We will shut Twitter down in India,’ which is a very large market for us; ‘We will raid the homes of your employees,’ which they did; ‘We will shut down your...
“No one went to jail nor was Twitter ‘shut down’. Dorsey’s Twitter regime had a problem accepting the sovereignty of Indian law. It behaved as if the laws of India did not apply to it,” he wrote in theSeveral members of the opposition Congress Party are calling out the government in response.