Well it's easy to crap on the media or describe it as "porn" when it reports something that you don't like. The BBC also reports Indian government has asked Twitter to censor any Indian accounts contents it does not like. That is censorship. Please go to the BBC video at 1:25.
Been following twitter myself, its lot of extra coverage from massive journalist and indian media groups there (on top of indian citizens themselves)....so really the reporting by BBC/NYT/CNN or whomever else in the typical media cabal worldwide....I really have lost trust on a good long time as to their cherrypicked+extrapolation narrative when it comes to any crisis.
Especially when they have aligned their own repression+expasion w.r.t political alignment when it comes to news reporting+analysis considerably.
They have little to no standing left to comment on this after what they have done all through 2020 on this matter in their own countries and others. They are not neutral institutions by any stretch....that has been made blatantly clear.
Anyway, the twitter handles that were clamped down upon by Indian govt, are specific ones speaking/representing for political parties....public figures like that have a certain threshold to meet given they voice for a larger collective.
It was stupid of them (Indian govt) to do I agree (I just looked at the content/context of what was being talked about myself)....but their argument will be handled by twitter and its rules (which have been totally arbitrary on lot of things a long time so I don't like that process either).
Twitter has deleted a lot of comments "for rule violations" that were stupid...if they do so for this one, its the same thing IMO.
But the 99.9999% of actual tweets from Indian media (from right, left, centre), social media and citizens continues as normal....just like they did while Trump-GOP and democrats did so all the time in 2020 and before.
Political sniping at this level (by whomever is in power vs opposition in politics and vice versa and bringing out the "rule book") is not a new phenomenon to twitter nor one exclusive to India by far. I am resigned to that as much as I hate it.