India’s number of content takedown demands on Twitter/X has soared in recent years, and they are being complied with more than they used to.

Opposition parties often get their bank accounts frozen too.

Nostr and Bitcoin, especially as a combo, can help route around that sort of social and monetary censorship.

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I wonder how much *free speech cost on twitter in India

That is sad. I bought the free speech absolutist narrative at the beginning of his Twitter takeover. Nostr fix that in the long term.

Musk still congratulating him says a lot.

How do you know this? Any convincing data to back up your claims?

Musk = bad man.. fake engineer… enjoys censoring people… correct?

Dorsey = good brilliant man, but was just forced to censor Americans …

Have I got this right?

Musk doesn’t enjoy it as far as I assume. But the incentive structure is for him to comply.

Look up the India stats from a bunch of different sources. Much of it is public. Takedown demands have soared, and the rate of accepting those demands increased.

i just read something today which pointed out that the politically central role of X means that he now can exert pressure as he wants to as well, without being asked

Imagine the growth of Nostr if all of India turned to the platform to avoid censorship. if wonder if anyone's tried advertising Nostr in India

Dorsey is doing penance, is 21 million enough? Did you read about what he did to help nostr get rolling?

Jack is doing great things for nostr and bitcoin, I’m not denying that. He let Twitter censorship get out of control though. Tesla still has more btc in its treasury than Block. Musk is fighting gov censorship in court like f.e. recently in Australia and Brazil, just to name a few. Both are great entrepreneurs. Lyn has shown she is unfairly anti-Musk and pro Dorsey though.

i don't trust musk either, he seems to be doing a lot of legwork for agendas i disagree with, and riding a tsunami of government pork money grants, and you surely realise that electric vehicles are a sick joke right?

and while he mostly kow tows, i saw something about india, there is also suppression and promotion he is doing on X towards things he likes, which is likely, just like the rest of his things, part of the script he's playing

Trump is most famous yankee SALESMAN

Musk means biz + profit i.e. CN + IN

Business FIRST rest all are SECONDARY! (freespeech NOT makes profit for corpations TLSA SpaceX Starlink ...)

An issue here is going to be the balance Elon has to make when it comes to X censorship and running public businesses. He has to weigh his personal convictions vs what is best for business. He is beholden to the boards and shareholders.

You will be able to say that when bitcoin is as easy to use as Apple Pay.

India not allowing a good Bitcoin exchange and taxing 30% of Bitcoin sells on short and long term speaks to this government action.

It’s hypocrisy if you see Indian stock market doing 25% on nifty 50 index with all the money printing. Indian people follow rules of government by not purchasing Bitcoin but will pay a big price when Bitcoin is trading in millions.

25% on one year. Companies like Adani have collaborated with Indian goverment and their public shares have multiples 5X over past 4-5 years.

Congratulations of a grifter and scammer to an hater and demagogue. Fitting.

Some people say that Elon should just add in Nostr capabilities to Twitter so that he doesn't have to justify some content getting through. What do you think about that?

When they go out of their way to reiterate that the elections are democratic, it’s usually a sign…

India NGMI, they had a shot but Bitcoin would have upset the caste system.

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