Jack Dorsey is not any crusader of free speech. Here is why

On Monday (June 12), Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey courted controversy after he accused the Indian authorities of coercing him to withhold accounts of journalists, who have been important of the federal government throughout the farmers’ protest.

While talking to the Youtube channel ‘Breaking Points’, he claimed, “India for example is a country that had many requests of us around the farmer’s protest around particular journalists that were critical of the government.”

“And it manifested in ways such as, ‘we will shut put her 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 offices if you don’t follow suit. And this is India, a democratic country,” Jack Dorsey additional alleged.

His outrageous claims have been debunked by Rajeev Chandrasekhar in an in depth assertion on Twitter. The Union Minister identified how Twitter, below the supervision of Jack Dorsey, was blatantly violating Indian legal guidelines and had full disregard for the sovereignty of India.

He added how ‘partisan’ Jack Dorsey was concerned in de-platforming and de-amplifying voices that he didn’t agree with politically. The ex-Twitter CEO’s run-in with India and the incumbent political dispensation on the Centre will not be new.

Nonetheless, this gave a possibility to the standard suspects to resort to anti-India propaganda. After touting Dorsey’s claims because the ‘gospel truth’, left-liberals and Islamists solid aspersions on the integrity of the Modi authorities.

Islamists, left-liberals endorse claims of Jack Dorsey because the ‘gospel truth’

‘Journalist’ Swati Chaturvedi wrote, “Modi has caused Indian democracy global embarrassment with his dictatorial behaviour here.” She had earlier tweeted, “Shameful by @PMOIndia threats to raid homes of Twitter officials if “farmers protests” & “critical journalists” weren’t censored.”

Modi has induced Indian democracy international embarrassment along with his dictatorial behaviour right here https://t.co/b40aDNDozw

— Swati Chaturvedi (@bainjal) June 13, 2023

Congress ‘troll’ Dr Nimo Yadav shared the contentious video of Jack Dorsey and claimed, “And India is world’s largest democracy. This is not my India.”

This is Jack Dorsey, former CEO of twitter.

Here he’s saying “During farmer protest Indian govt pressurised us and said we will shut down twitter, raid the homes of your employees if you don’t follow the suite”

And India is world’s largest democracy.

This will not be my India 💔 pic.twitter.com/yiiTtqUDYp

— Dr Nimo Yadav (@niiravmodi) June 12, 2023

Congress nationwide media co-ordinator, Prashant Pratap, went on to recommend that Narendra Modi is afraid and thus ‘censored’ Twitter accounts important of the BJP authorities.

SHOCKING (Not)

‘भारत | ट्विटर अकाउंट जो सरकार के आलोचक थे, किसानों के विरोध के दौरान…

मोदी सरकार ने हम पर दबाव डाला और कहा कि हम आपके कार्यालयों को बंद कर देंगे, आपके कर्मचारियों के घरों पर छापा मारेंगे, जो उन्होंने किया’ – @jack @narendramodi डरता है 🐦 pic.twitter.com/p5Fg26GKZP

— Prashant Pratap (@iPrashantSingh) June 12, 2023

Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair, who has a historical past of protecting Islamists, additionally sought to take advantage of the chance.

Former Twitter CEO @Jack Dorsey in an interview to @esaagar @krystalball on Breaking Points talks about Worlds Largest Democracy,
“India for instance, India is likely one of the nation which had many requests round farmers protests, round explicit journalists which have been important of… pic.twitter.com/unF6dVmv0O

— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) June 12, 2023

Islamist outfit Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) wrote, “Twitter co-founder Jack tells @esaagar that the Narendra Modi government pressured Twitter to block accounts covering farmers’ protests and criticizing his govt while also threatening to raid and arrest its employees based in India.”

Twitter co-founder @jack tells @esaagar that the Narendra Modi authorities pressured Twitter to dam accounts overlaying farmers’ protests and criticizing his govt whereas additionally threatening to raid and arrest its workers based mostly in India.

pic.twitter.com/OBBHNSU3Xw

— Indian American Muslim Council (@IAMCouncil) June 12, 2023

Congress supporter Dr Namrata Datta, recognized for plagiarism, additionally joined the bandwagon and repeated the claims of Jack Dorsey.

How Modi Govt Restricted/Pressures Twitter for Free Speech.

~Jack Dorsey

“India is a rustic that had many requests of us across the farmers’ protest, round journalists that have been important of the federal government. 1/2@BreakingPointsN @jack pic.twitter.com/289fsrWaXH

— 🧬Dr. Namrata Datta (Singa Pen), PhD🧫🇬🇧🦘🇮🇳 (@DrDatta01) June 13, 2023

“The revelations by Jack Dorsey are neither surprising nor shocking for those in India who ask questions of the government. What is shocking is that more than 12 hours have passed since this video and neither ANI, nor Noida channels nor Goli Maro Thakur or ‘sources’ have lashed out yet alleging toolkit and conspiracy against India,” alleged ‘journalist’ Rohini Singh.

Although Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar and others have issued statements, rubbishing the allegations levelled by Jack Dorsey, she didn’t hassle to replace or delete her present tweet.

The revelations by Jack Dorsey are neither stunning nor stunning for these in India who ask questions of the federal government. What is stunning is that greater than 12 hours have handed since this video and neither ANI, nor Noida channels nor Goli Maro Thakur or ‘sources’ have lashed…

— Rohini Singh (@rohini_sgh) June 13, 2023

“Indian Govt, treating Indian Citizens as hostage, to shut critics,” alleged one other left-liberal.

Jack Dorsey reveals that in so referred to as Democratic India, throughout Farmers Protest, Modi Regime put strain to dam Twitter accounts important of Government and threatened to raid properties of Twitter India Employees. Indian Govt, treating Indian Citizens as hostage, to close critics pic.twitter.com/YuIYR3eWNe

— Joy (@Joydas) June 12, 2023
The controversies of Jack Dorsey

This will not be the primary time that the previous Twitter CEO had a run-in with India and its authorities.Back in May 2018, Jack Dorsey stirred the hornet’s nest by posing with a Hinduphobic placard, designed by an anti-Brahmin activist named Thenmozhi Soundararajan.

“Smash Brahmanical patriarchy”, the placard learn. Over the years, ‘Brahmanical patriarchy’ has turn out to be the canine whistle, utilized by liberals and Islamists alike, to overtly berate the Hindu neighborhood.

Jack Dorsey later claimed to haven’t any data in regards to the content material of the placard and even ‘Twitter India’ distanced itself from the controversy.

Sign @jack is holding says “Smash Brahminical Patriarchy”. Venmous Hinduphobes use “Brahminical” as a code-word, relatively like “Zionist” is typically a code for “Jew”. Congrats to @jack for becoming a member of the hate-fest https://t.co/UQBPv4U2Ff @RajivMessage @subhashkak1 @davidfrawleyved

— भारत धर्म (@BharatDharma) November 18, 2018

Around the identical time, the US House Energy and Commerce Committee initiated a evaluate of Jack Dorsey’s statements, which he gave below oath earlier than the committee in September 2018. It is a federal crime to supply false testimony to Congress.

The listening to was about Twitter’s alleged arbitrary censorship of content material revealed on the location. US Conservatives had usually accused the platform of discrimination and silencing their voices to favour the progressives.

In October 2020, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate permitted subpoenas in opposition to Jack Dorsey relating to the censorship of anti-Biden tales on the micro-blogging web site.

Even the Indian authorities had despatched a powerful warning to the Twitter founder for displaying Leh as a part of China on the social media platform.

Lady freaks out on @jack at @TheBitcoinConf #Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/glS3jdJ5vs

— Value & Time (@valueandtime) June 4, 2021

In June 2021,  Jack Dorsey was heckled by one activist Laura Loomer throughout the Bitcoin 2021 convention organised in Miami within the United States. The incident occurred after Loomer was aghast on the censorship guidelines of the micro-blogging web site.

“Censorship is human rights violation…It’s almost as if Twitter hates Jews and conservatives. When is Jack Dorsey going to stop censoring conservatives? When am I going to get my Twitter back? I’ll be here as long as it takes,” she was quoted as saying. 

Jack Dorsey was additionally caught endorsing tweets hailing Hollywood singer-actress Rihanna’s intervention into India’s home politics.

Screengrab of the tweet

Rihanna, together with former porn-star Mia Khalifa and baby protestors comparable to Greta Thunberg, interfered within the nation’s inside affairs by endorsing violence within the identify of supporting ‘farmer’ protests, inflicting a large backlash in opposition to these so-called worldwide celebrities. 

Around the identical time, Twitter eliminated a tweet by Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut, criticising the farmer’s protest. “We have taken action on Tweets that were in violation of the Twitter Rules in line with our range of enforcement options,” it mentioned in a press release.

Twitter and the continued saga of Censorship

While Jack Dorsey had been falsely accusing the Indian authorities of censorship, it have to be talked about that his personal platform had been on the helm of arbitrarily suspending/terminating the accounts of right-wing handles.

Listen from the horse’s mouth itself how @jack used Twitter to silence the voices of Right Wingerd and interfered in Elections.

Opposition events & liberals in our nation helps them because it helped them in opposition to PM Modi Garu and Suppressing RW Voices. pic.twitter.com/0k5ZBtHv11

— Mitta Vamsi Krishna (@MittaVamsiBJP) June 13, 2023

In December 2018, Twitter’s authorized staff promptly despatched official correspondence to 2 vocal critics of radical Islam, specifically, Imam Tawhidi and Ensaf Haider for supposedly ‘violating Pakistani law’.

In March 2019, Opindia reported how Twitter censored the account of historical past buff ‘True Indology’ for exposing the distorted claims of ‘communal harmony’ in Jammu and Kashmir, as espoused by leftist propaganda outlet NDTV.

‘True Indology’ had merely identified that the Muslim inhabitants of Jammu and Kashmir by no means accepted a Hindu Chief Minister and that by no means even elected a single Hindu from their area.

BREAKING: @Twitter Insider Secretly Records CEO @jack Detailing Agenda For Further Political Censorship

“We are centered on one account [@realDonaldTrump] proper now however that is going to be MUCH BIGGER than only one account & it’s going to go on for for much longer…”#ExposeTwitter pic.twitter.com/QhyyUTHlM9

— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) January 14, 2021

One of probably the most notable instances of censorship was the termination of the Twitter account of former US President Donald Trump. The fourth tranche of Twitter Files revealed how former Safety Head Yoel Roth flouted all guidelines to ban Donald Trump, regardless of being alarmed by junior workers.

At that point, Jack Dorsey had revealed that the try to silence and ban conservative opinion-makers is not only restricted to Donald Trump. He identified that the censorship will proceed, nicely previous the inauguration of president-elect Joe Biden.

He informed workers, “We know we are focused on one account right now, but this is going to be much bigger than just one account, and it’s going to go on for much longer than just this day, this week, the next few weeks, going on beyond inauguration. We have to expect that. We have to be ready for that.”

The Twitter Files, Part Deux!! 🍿🍿 https://t.co/bH9UiTSEK2

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2022

Twitter Files had revealed how the micro-blogging platform grew to become a hotbed of censorship by means of the creation of blacklists, arbitrary prevention of tweets from trending on the platform and deliberate discount of visibility of trending subjects and accounts.

In September 2022, the present Twitter proprietor Elon Musk even hit out at Twitter Inc. for ‘suppressing’ his tweets. He had additionally requested Twitter, Twitter Verified and then-CEO Parag Agarwal to repair it.

I’m interested in what function the federal government performed in Twitter’s suppression of covid coverage dialogue. We will see with time, I suppose.

Thank you @bariweiss and @elonmusk. Sunshine is the very best disinfectant.
2/2

— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) December 9, 2022

Several accounts have been gutted below the pretext of Covid-19 misinformation. In December 2022, American journalist Bari Weiss identified how Dr Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of well being coverage at Stanford University, was one of many victims of the high-handedness of a ‘select few’ workers at Twitter

Weiss highlighted how Bhattacharya’s tweets have been blocked from trending as a result of he claimed that Covid-19 lockdowns might hurt kids.

“Still trying to process my emotions on learning that @twitter blacklisted me. The thought that will keep me up tonight: censorship of scientific discussion permitted policies like school closures & a generation of children were hurt,” tweeted the Stanford professor after studying in regards to the matter.

The blocking of the Hunter Biden story

In the final weeks of the 2020 US presidential elections, the New York Post revealed an explosive story about Hunter Biden’s problematic emails with a Ukrainian gasoline firm govt from Burisma.

In its report, the information outlet alleged that they’d accessed materials from a broken Macbook that was delivered to a service centre for restore. The buyer who introduced the laptop computer by no means collected or paid for the companies.

The store proprietor mentioned he repeatedly tried to contact the consumer. Though he couldn’t establish the proprietor as Hunter Biden, he mentioned the laptop computer had Beau Biden Foundation’s sticker.

The report has a number of paperwork and mentions a video that proves that Joe Biden met a high-profile businessman from Ukraine when he was Vice President of the United States. 

Column’s up: Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg censored the @nypost Hunter Biden tales earlier than the election to cover the true Joe Biden https://t.co/bjx7cCw0hU

— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) November 29, 2021

Reports advised that Biden could have helped his son Hunter utilizing his affect because the VP of the United States in his enterprise in Ukraine. The Biden Camp categorically denied all of the allegations.

It was closely censored by each Twitter and Facebook and was branded as a chunk of faux information. Initially, the left and liberal cabal dismissed the report as a hoax, however it was finally confirmed that the laptop computer’s contents did actually belong to Hunter Biden.

Following the restriction of the NYP report, Twitter justified the motion by claiming that its insurance policies forbid the sharing of compromised data. After the elections have been over and Joe Biden was declared president, it later grew to become clear that the NY Post story was true.

Twitter’s former head Jack Dorsey then expressed remorse over censoring the story and blocking NY Post from their Twitter account.

When Twitter refused to take down baby porn 

In 2021, a 17-year-old boy, alias ‘John Doe’, filed a lawsuit in opposition to Twitter for not eradicating two baby pornography movies that includes him, regardless of a number of requests to the social media large.

The sufferer knowledgeable us that the movies have been shot when he was simply 13 years previous. He accused Twitter of permitting the dissemination of disturbing movies and profiteering from his traumatic expertise.

The teen had alleged that intercourse traffickers, posing as a 16-year-old feminine classmate, had lured him for a chat on Snapchat. After exchanging nude photographs with the traffickers, he was subjected to blackmail.

The accused had coerced him into sending extra sexually graphic pictures and movies by threatening to ship the nude pictures to his pastor, coach and fogeys. The sufferer was made to incorporate one other baby in sexual acts.

The division of homeland safety needed to step in to get Twitter to take away the video.

Twitter refused to take accountability.

The lawsuit is headed to @US9thCircuit https://t.co/fJzQwqVb0d

— Eliza (@elizableu) September 4, 2022

Eventually, he mustered the braveness to dam the traffickers. Later in 2019, the movies of his abuse surfaced on Twitter. They have been reported a number of instances to the moderation staff, which refused to take them down.

Meanwhile, the sufferer was subjected to bullying and harassment by his classmates over his baby abuse movies. After a number of requests, Twitter responded to the sufferer and claimed that the 2 movies weren’t in violation of the corporate’s insurance policies.

By then, the movies have been watched over 1.67 lakh customers and retweeted over 2.2K instances. It was solely after a proper criticism to the Department of Homeland Security that Twitter acted in opposition to the person that posted the movies.

This particular person made 8k promoting baby sexual exploitation materials on Twitter. Some of the movies have been of minor survivors crying and begging to not be exploited. Over 40+ minor male survivors.

He lately pled responsible. https://t.co/XE4cxaQLww

— Eliza (@elizableu) September 4, 2022

In August 2022, The Verge reported how Twitter was planning to start out a subscription mannequin for grownup content material creators, alongside the strains of OnlyFans. At that point, a staff of 84 Twitter workers identified how the social media large lacked instruments to establish doubtlessly dangerous sexual content material.

“Twitter cannot accurately detect child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity at scale,” they concluded. Interestingly, the social media large was fast to terminate the accounts of these people who questioned the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines and the mainstream narrative in regards to the pandemic

‘Human Trafficking Survivor Advocate’ Eliza had documented a number of instances the place Twitter failed to guard minor victims of kid abuse. In May 2021, a Russian courtroom fined Twitter for failing to delete unlawful content material, together with posts associated to baby pornography, drug abuse data, and requires minors to commit suicide, which was highlighted by the telecom regulator Ruskomnadzor.

Twitter had been difficult the Indian govt for a very long time

In August 2022, Opindia reported how Elon Musk flagged Twitter’s dangerous litigation in opposition to the Indian authorities. “Twitter has terminated its product lead and another key executive, retained a board member whose reelection was rejected by stockholders, instituted a hiring freeze, and disobeyed orders from and initiated risky litigation against the Indian government—thereby placing Twitter’s third largest market at risk,” he had mentioned.

Earlier in February 2019, Twitter CEO and high officers had declined to seem earlier than the Parliamentary Committee on Information Technology, headed by Anurag Thakur, which had issued a summons to Twitter over the problem of safeguarding residents’ rights on social media platforms.

It could also be recalled how in February 2021, Twitter determined to place its personal guidelines above Indian legal guidelines and refused to withhold or droop accounts which have been accused of inciting violence within the nation. 

However, we now have not taken any motion on accounts that consist of stories media entities, journalists, activists, and politicians. We will proceed to advocate for the appropriate of free expression on behalf of the folks we serve, and are exploring choices below Indian regulation.

— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) February 10, 2021

It cited freedom of speech and expression as per the Indian Constitution for information media entities, journalists, activists and politicians for refusing to take motion in opposition to the offending accounts.

Interestingly, the Indian Constitution’s Article 19 which serves freedom of speech and expression doesn’t specify the press or related individuals as separate entities.

Having mentioned that, left liberals and Islamists at the moment are attempting to make use of the assertion of Jack Dorsey to malign the Indian authorities. It comes as no marvel that fears about social media giants comparable to Twitter and Facebook interfering in India’s electoral course of have solely elevated with time.