Authorities are targeting people for content posted online, and regularly intimidating web platforms and social media services into complying with its censorship.

Jit Singh

This year has seen a significant rise in digital authoritarianism in India... and Twitter has been made into a scapegoat to send a message to other companies.

Firms would be worried by the impact it has on their users, staff, and executives — as well as global concerns that they would be actively facilitating human rights abuse happening under that framework.