An interesting development since Twitter censored Trump and his supporters in the US election is the response from governments across the world. Twitter's own actions have made the case that Twitter believes that there is a strong case to be made for censoring tweets in the

public interest. This is a notable departure from the past libertarian stance of free speech that came out of Silicon Valley. Now that the case for censoring in the public interest has been made, I expect an acceleration in calls from governments across the world asking Twitter

to censor tweets and people that help them achieve their governance goals. Now that this pandora's box is open, it will be interesting to see the domino of actions that come out of it.

Example that illustrates this is Indian lawmakers in a bipartisan manner voicing their concerns about censorship of Trump and asking two lines of questions

a. If you can censor to uphold law and order in US, why cant you do the same in India
b. Explain why you arent a publisher

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