Comment by mikece

How can Twitter seriously make the statement that they are not taking sides in a political issue by banning one party in a country? By any objective measure this is suppressing political speech and runs contrary to Twitter's stated goal of being on online Town Square, a place for discourse and the exchange of ideas. It would be one thing if an account was closed for obviously criminal reasons but I doubt that's the case here. That said, I'm not versed on Indian politics so if someone who knows more can assert that clearly criminal things were happening on this account I'll take back what I've said above.