Elon Musk caused a stir by limiting the number of tweets visible to Twitter users in a single day. Perhaps he was inspired by the High Court of Karnataka, a big south Indian state, which the day before had issued its own argument for restricting tweets. On June 30th the court ruled against Twitter in a case challenging the constitutionality of an Indian government demand, in 2022, to block content and several accounts critical of it.
The majority of India’s internet shutdowns are imposed in restive areas such as Jammu and Kashmir, which accounted for more than half of last year’s stoppages. The small north-eastern state of Manipur, which has been