{"id":55942,"date":"2023-06-13T17:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T08:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/13\/india-threatened-to-shut-twitter-down-co-founder-jack-dorsey-says"},"modified":"2023-06-14T01:33:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T16:33:56","slug":"india-threatened-to-shut-twitter-down-co-founder-jack-dorsey-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55942","title":{"rendered":"India threatened to shut Twitter down, co-founder Jack Dorsey says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Narendra Modi\u2019s government calls accusation by social media firm\u2019s former CEO an \u2018outright lie\u2019<\/p>\n<p>India threatened to shut Twitter down unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts critical of the government\u2019s handling of farmer protests, the social media platform\u2019s co-founder Jack Dorsey has said, an accusation Narendra Modi\u2019s government denied.<\/p>\n<p>Dorsey, who quit as Twitter\u2019s chief executive in 2021, said on Monday that India had also threatened the company with raids on employees if it did not comply with government requests to take down certain posts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/13\/india-threatened-to-shut-twitter-down-co-founder-jack-dorsey-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narendra Modi\u2019s government calls accusation by social media firm\u2019s former CEO an \u2018outright lie\u2019India threatened to shut Twitter down unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts critical of the government\u2019s handling of farmer protests, the socia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3794,"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":[457,62,433,58,350,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-of-speech","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-technology","category-twitter","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55942","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\/3794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55952,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55942\/revisions\/55952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}