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Jan 24 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
"PEN America condemns the Indian authorities' order to Twitter and YouTube to block a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which is a flagrant attempt to censor online content," said @karinkarlekar aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/21…
"This order is indicative of the decline in respect for free expression under the current government, and we call for access to the documentary to be restored, in line with India's constitutional protections for press freedom," said PEN America's @karinkarlekar.
#India already ranks in the top 10 globally in terms of jailing writers and other dissident voices.

Read more in our #FreedomToWrite Index at: pen.org/report/freedom…
“Free-speech absolutist” @elonmusk caved when India’s right-wing prime minister asked him to remove a critical BBC documentary interc.pt/3XsVHyN by @MazMHussain, @ryangrim
"Twitter even blocked Indian audiences from seeing two posts by actor @johncusack linking to the documentary. (They remain visible to American audiences)," reports @theintercept.

Cusack told The Intercept, “I received two notices that I’m banned in India.”
The Intercept also notes that @johncusack, "wrote a book, 'Things That Can and Cannot Be Said,' with celebrated Indian scholar Arundhati Roy, a fierce critic of the Modi government."
As India Tries to Block a Modi Documentary, Students Fight to See It

Officials at a public university cut the electricity before a planned screening, and the government has prevented clips from appearing online.
nytimes.com/2023/01/25/wor… #BBCdocumentry #BBCdocumentary
Free speech absolutism? In response to a request by the Indian government to remove content related to a film analyzing Modi’s role during the 2002 Gujarat riots, @elonmusk's #Twitter has taken down posts in India by politicians, journalists, & news media. hyperallergic.com/796288/india-t…

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At @nypl and around the globe, readers and writers are standing in solidarity with @SalmanRushdie and celebrating his tireless advocacy for freedom of expression and the plight of imperiled writers around the globe. #StandWithSalman Image
No better place to be than here at @nypl!

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