Musk Counters Dorsey's Take On India's Twitter Woes After Meeting PM Modi: 'Cannot Apply America To Earth'

After meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday reacted to former Twitter boss Jack Dorsey's claim that India threatened to shut down the micro-blogging platform.

What Happened: Following his meeting with Modi at the New York Palace Hotel, Musk was asked by the media about Dorsey’s recent interview, in which he claimed that Twitter had faced threats of being expelled from India. In response, Musk stated, "Twitter doesn’t have a choice but to obey local governments."

"If we don’t obey local government laws, then we will get shut down."

“The best we can do is to follow the laws in any given country,” the billionaire said, adding that it is impossible for “us to do more than that.”

"One cannot just apply America to Earth."

Last week, Dorsey said Twitter received "numerous requests" from the Indian government to censor accounts critical of the administration and those covering the farmers' protests while also issuing threats to block the micro-blogging site in the country.

“India is a country that had many requests of us around the farmers’ protest, around particular journalists that were critical of the government, and it manifested in ways such as ‘we will shut Twitter down in India,’ which is a very large market for us. ‘We will raid the homes of your employees,’ which they did; ‘we will shut down your offices if you don’t follow suit.’ And this is India, a democratic country,” Dorsey said.

India's Union IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar had strongly criticized the former Twitter CEO calling his comment an "outright lie.”

“This is an outright lie by [Jack] – perhaps an attempt to brush out that very dubious period of twitters history,” Chandrasekhar said.

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