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Jack Dorsey Alleges Indian Govt Threatened To Shut Down Twitter, Raid Employees

However, the India n government completely denied these allegations, calling it an “outright lie.” According to the India n government, Jack Dorsey and his Twitter team repeatedly violated India n laws and failed to comply from 2020 to 2022. Misinformation and fake news on social media platforms like Twitter ignited violence during the protests. Former IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said: “At the time, Twitter didn’t comply with India n laws. It is clear that all social media platforms are respected in India but they have to abide by the law of the land.” Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar slams Jack Dorsey , revealing no one was raided or sent to jail. Twitter operated normally and was never shut down. The social media platform only complied in June 2022 after similar events happened in the U.S. Twitter restored blocked accounts after a few hours, claiming block accounts belonging to media companies, journalists, activists, and politicians violate...

Decentralized Twitter alternative goes live on Apple's App Store

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The Damus app is powered by Nostr which uses decentralized relays to distribute end-to-end encrypted messages. Damus, a so-called “Twitter killer” built on a decentralized network has been approved on the Apple App Store. The Damus team confirmed the approval to its 11,500 Twitter followers on Jan. 31, following what it claims was at least three rejections from the Big Tech player. Shortly after, Twitter co-founder and Nostr contributor Jack Dorsey shared the news with his 6.5 million followers, with the entrepreneur labeling it as a “milestone” moment for open source protocols: a milestone for open protocols...#nostr is now officially on the Apple App Store with @damusapp:https://t.co/GQmvPE5nfX — jack (@jack) January 31, 2023 The app dubs itself the “social network you control” and is a messaging service built on Nostr — a decentralized network enabling encrypted, end-to-end private messaging, among other things. It plans to become a Social Media platform with uncensored cont...