# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 1)

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**Created:** [April 25, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442 "2022-04-25T22:50:17Z")
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### Author: ![am77494](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@am77494](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/am77494)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2843 "2023-01-25T19:36:00Z")

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> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> “It would result in riots” is a convenient excuse governments can use any time …

In 1924, there was a book similar to Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses published in India. It was called Rangila Rasul :  
“Between April and September 1927 there were at least 25 [riots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot) spread across [Mumbai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai), [Punjab](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab), [Bengal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal), [Bihar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bihar), [Odisha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odisha) and other regions, leaving a balance of just over a hundred dead (103) and just over a thousand injured (1084)” - [Rangila Rasul - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangila_Rasul)

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