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11 comments on HN so far, discussing politics and complaints about Twitter, and so far not one has responded to the content of the article, in which Twitter claims to have locked every account that posted a picture of a rape victim's family, violating its policy on doxxing.

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It's a photo-op, not doxxing. This is tantamount to accusing the family of doxxing themselves considering they invited him to meet with them.

> Sharing a picture of his meeting with the girl's family on Wednesday, Rahul Gandhi had tweeted in Hindi, “Parents' tears are saying only one thing -- their daughter, the daughter of this country, deserves justice. And I am with them on this path to justice.”

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/dalit-rape-murder-rahu...

This article has more details. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/12/tech/twitter-india-congre... The opposition party clearly had the permission of the parents to post the photo. The Indian government appears to have requested of Twitter to remove the photo since it was used for political purposes by the opposition.

> The opposition party clearly had the permission of the parents to post the photo

Where does it say in the article you have linked?

It's clear from context because the photos are from a meeting with the victim's family. You can see the censored photos here: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/rahul-gandhi-... I don't know why India has a law against showing photos of rape victims families. Perhaps because rape brings shame to the victim's family in some circles. However, if you are publicly meeting with a national politician you clearly do not ascribe to that view and it is obvious that you wouldn't mind being seen in photos with that politician.

All these are just your opinions. You wrote your statement as if it were a fact.

I don't think I (or probably most others here) have enough information to intelligently comment on that.

Is the family of the rape victim consenting to their image being used, or not? Is the picture and/or identity of the family widely broadcast in the media, or not? Is the picture portraying things in a particularly unique and politically important light (like the napalm girl picture), or not?

Edit: I see other people starting to bring in this sort of information now, but I don't think it's surprising that early comments are on the content of the article.

Exactly. It's hard to tell if that was precisely what happened (I blame the cultural and linguistic translation barrier), but if it was, Twitter's TOS on doxxing is very clear.

The locking is necessary as a temporary and immediate mitigation strategy to minimize harm until the nature of the content is determined or the content is removed, rendering locking moot. Standard procedure.

Could they not have deleted the tweet or the picture and posted in its place an explanation citing the precise policy that's being enforced?

This is like when Twitter removed a joke meme post by Trump because it was “manipulated media.”

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