WASHINGTON: Social networking website Twitter was on Friday accused of not doing enough to protect freedom of speech in Indian-occupied Kashmir by blindly bowing down to the demands of Indian censorship. According to the findings published by the Committee to Protect Journalists, Twitter shockingly agreed to block more accounts in South Asia, mostly from Pakistan and occupied Kashmir, than in every other country in the world. Data gathered by the journalistic body revealed that nearly one million tweets related to occupied Kashmir were removed from Twitter and at least 100 accounts made inaccessible to the people. The results of the CPJ research, however, indicate that the crackdown on voices critical of Indian actions in occupied Kashmir started almost two years ago before Indian PM Modi illegally annexed the occupied valley. “It totally makes sense the Indian government would go after Twitter and Twitter users because Twitter as a platform is a really significant source of information sharing in Kashmir,” said David Kaye, a UN representative.

Source: Pakistan Today October 26, 2019 12:45 UTC