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Comply with India’s ‘strict’ laws or go to jail? It’s an easy choice, says Elon Musk

Twitter chief Elon Musk on Wednesday said it is not possible for the social media platform to offer the same freedom of speech to users in India that it does in the US and other Western countries.

Speaking to a BBC journalist in an interview on Twitter Spaces, Musk said that some rules related to social media were “quite strict” in India and he is not aware of “what exactly happened” when Twitter took down content related to a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this year.

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