More on Twitter, YouTube, and Modi
https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/109751714389944586
Regarding the BBC Modi India documentary ... I don't need to be told
that firms like #Twitter and #YouTube/#Google must abide by the laws
of the countries where they operate -- I've explained this myself many
times over the years.
But there is an important codicil to this. Unreasonable censorship
demands -- as is happening now with India attempting to hide the BBC
program from their own population - - call into question the ability
to continue such operations in those countries in the same manner
without becoming ethically entangled in a very bad way in the
underlying situation -- in this case accusations of government
religious oppression and what may amount to ethnic/religious/racial
cleansing.
I am not asserting that these are simple decisions. But I am saying
that trying to just brush off censorship by major platforms of such
content as "they're just following the law" is ethically vacuous and
wrong. -L
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--Lauren--
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