‘Will shut Twitter down… raid homes’: Jack Dorsey’s declare on ‘pressure’ from India throughout farmers’ protest

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, in a shocking allegation, claimed that the corporate had acquired “many requests” from India to dam accounts masking farmers’ protests and people crucial of the federal government. While the federal government was but to react to Dorsey’s allegation, the Congress’s wings – the Youth Congress and National Students’ Union of India – took to Twitter to share the clip of his declare which he made throughout an interview to YouTube channel Breaking Points on Monday.

During the interview, when requested if he had confronted any strain from international governments, Dorsey, who stepped down from Twitter’s board final 12 months, replied, “India for example, India is one of the countries which had many requests around farmers protests, around particular journalists which were critical of the government, and it manifested in ways such as ‘we will shut Twitter down in India’… ‘we would 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.”

In November 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced the repeal of the three controversial farm legal guidelines, after hundreds of farmers had been tenting at Delhi border factors in a protest of unprecedented scale since November 2020. Modi admitted the failure in convincing the farmers and appealed to them to name off their year-long protest. In the winter session of Parliament, the three legal guidelines had been withdrawn.

Reacting to Dorsey’s interview, nationwide president of the Indian Youth Congress Srinivas BV tweeted, “Mother of Democracy – Unfiltered.”

Neeraj Kundan of the NSUI alleged that the “BJP is the killer of democracy, it is being proved again and again”.

Elon Musk grew to become ‘reckless’: Jack Dorsey

Dorsey additionally spoke on Elon Musk’s run as Twitter CEO, calling among the strikes the billionaire made “fairly reckless”.

The former Twitter CEO, who has backed the invite-only, Twitter-alternative Bluesky. Dorsey stated he requested Musk to hitch Twitter’s board many instances earlier than Musk joined in April of final 12 months, throughout which Musk additionally agreed to purchase Twitter.

“Elon is our number one user. He’s our number one customer… He understood the platform deeply, and he’s a technologist and he builds technology,” Dorsey stated. But when Musk tried to again out of shopping for the corporate, prompting a lawsuit from Twitter, Dorsey stated was “when things really went south”.