Social media platform has no choice but to follow the local laws of country or risk being shut down: Twitter chief Elon Musk
The Hindu
Twitter chief Elon Musk on June 21, 2023 said a social media platform has no choice but to follow the local laws in any given country or risk being shut down
Twitter chief Elon Musk on Wednesday (June 21) said a social media platform has no choice but to follow the local laws in any given country or risk being shut down.
Mr. Musk's comments came in response to questions on Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's allegations that the Indian government had threatened the social networking platform with raids if it did not take down content that was critical of it during the protests against the three farm laws (since repealed).
"Twitter doesn't have a choice but to obey local governments. If we don't obey local government laws, then we will get shut down," he told reporters after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New York.
“The best we can do is to follow the laws in any given country,” Mr. Musk said, adding that it was impossible “to do more than that”.
Mr. Musk said there were different rules and regulations for different forms of governments, and "we will do our best to provide the freest speech that is possible under the law".
"One cannot just apply America to the Earth," Mr. Musk said.
In a recent interview, Mr. Dorsey, who quit as Twitter CEO in 2021, claimed that during his tenure as CEO, Twitter received requests from the Indian government to block accounts covering the 2020-2021 farmers' protests and those critical of the government.
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