#107 An Enemy A Day....🎧

<em>This newsletter is really a public policy thought-letter. While excellent newsletters on specific themes within public policy already exist, this thought-letter is about frameworks, mental models, and key ideas that will hopefully help you think about any public policy problem in imaginative ways. It seeks to answer just one question: </em><strong><em>how do I think about a particular public policy problem/solution?</em></strong><br/><br/><em>PS: If you enjoy listening instead of reading, we have this edition available as an audio narration on all podcasting platforms courtesy the good folks at </em><a target="_blank" href="https://www.ad-auris.com/"><em>Ad-Auris</em></a><em>. If you have any feedback, please send it to us.</em><br/><br/>- <em>RSJ</em><br/><br/>We have been writing about Radically Networked Societies (RNS) for the past couple of editions. Maybe you have had enough of it. But not the world around us. After the Rihanna/Greta tweet episode that led to the government mobilising its own RNS with film stars and cricketers in the van, we now have moved to the next stage of the battle of RNS. <br/><br/>New Front<br/><br/>The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/11/india-rebukes-twitter-for-not-fully-complying-with-government-order.html">government this week asked Twitter </a>to remove over 1000 accounts and posts which it believes spread misinformation about the new farm laws. Twitter responded by reducing the visibility of the hashtags that contain harmful content and suspending more than 500 accounts, some permanently, that violated its rules. But the government isn’t satisfied with the response. It has upped the ante now with <a target="_blank" href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/govt-mulls-arrest-of-twitter-officials-over-non-compliance/articleshow/80804008.cms">not so subtle threats of arrests of Twitter </a>officials if the company didn’t comply with the government orders under Section 69A of IT Act.<br/><br/>Into this mix <a target="_blank" href="https://indianexpr