‘Tweets must flow’: Twitter’s global policy team is prepping for a fight with Indian government

From Egypt’s Arab Spring in 2011 to the continuing farmers’ protest in India, one factor that hasn’t modified in Twitter’s global policy is its stance on free speech. “The tweets should flow,” Twitter’s former common counsel Alexander Macgillivray had mentioned on the peak of the Egyptian revolution. A decade later, when the Indian government mentioned that Twitter ought to block greater than a thousand accounts that had been allegedly a part of “well-coordinated”