{"id":25484,"date":"2020-12-08T00:23:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T15:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/dec\/07\/twitter-accused-censoring-indian-critic-hindu-nationalism-salil-tripathi"},"modified":"2020-12-08T00:23:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T15:23:36","slug":"twitter-accused-of-censoring-indian-critic-of-hindu-nationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25484","title":{"rendered":"Twitter accused of censoring Indian critic of Hindu nationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writers including Salman Rushdie express anger after journalist Salil Tripathi has account suspended<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has been accused of censoring the prominent Indian journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/saliltripathi\">Salil Tripathi<\/a> by suspending his account, after he tweeted on subjects including the anniversary of the demolition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/30\/india-bjp-leaders-acquitted-babri-mosque-demolition-case\">of the Babri mosque<\/a> and his work on India\u2019s shrinking democratic space.<\/p>\n<p>Writers including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/salmanrushdie\">Salman Rushdie<\/a> and Amitav Ghosh expressed anger after Tripathi, who is chair of PEN International\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/joepublic\/2010\/apr\/09\/pen-freedom-writers-prison-committee\">Writers in Prison Committee<\/a>, had his Twitter account suspended on Sunday without warning.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/dec\/07\/twitter-accused-censoring-indian-critic-hindu-nationalism-salil-tripathi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writers including Salman Rushdie express anger after journalist Salil Tripathi has account suspendedTwitter has been accused of censoring the prominent Indian journalist Salil Tripathi by suspending his account, after he tweeted on subjects including t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[457,516,62,351,447,238,54,371,61,58,350,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-of-speech","category-hinduism","category-india","category-internet","category-islam","category-media","category-press-freedom","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-twitter","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25485,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25484\/revisions\/25485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}