Musk Blocks Indian’s Account, Says Country’s Law Must Be Followed

NEW DELHI (IANS) – Elon Musk said on May 2 said that the law of country must be respected else his X platform will be blocked, when an Indian user criticized the billionaire for locking her account over a post.

Anu Bishnoi (@Anitabishnoi09) posted that her account got locked for an hour and she “had to delete the main post to get access to my account”.

“It’s a hypocrisy of Elon Musk who talks about free speech but on the other side, he is forcing people to delete posts,” she commented.

In a reply, the X owner said that if “we get a court order and that court order appears to be in compliance with a country’s laws, then we take the action required, even if we disagree with the laws. Only if the court order appears to violate a country’s laws, as has happened for example in Brazil, do we fight it,” said Musk.

The Tesla CEO also said that “we must respect the laws of a country or our platform will be blocked.”

Last month, Musk claimed that the X platform was asked to suspend accounts of sitting members of the Brazilian Parliament and journalists.

The Brazilian government attempted to ban X in the country and threatened to arrest its employees if their demands were not met.