Tweets Were Taken Down For Spreading Fake News About Covid-19, Not For Criticising Us: Government Clarifies
by Swarajya Staff - Apr 25, 2021 04:42 PM
Union Minister R S Prasad and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
Sunday (25 April) saw a social media kerfuffle after it emerged that the government of India got Twitter to take down 52 tweets, some of which were posted by Congress and Trinamool Congress leaders. There were also tweets by critics of the government amongst those taken down.
While Congress Leader Pawan Khera went to the extent of serving a legal notice to Twitter and the government, others took to social media to deplore what they termed as the government s censorship of criticism.
Govt mulls arrest of Twitter officials over non-compliance
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Top Twitter executives in India may face arrest with the Centre making it clear that its list of accounts sought to be censured over “inflammatory content”, especially those with the hashtag of farmers’ genocide, was “non-negotiable”, and warning its patience was wearing out over the refusal of the company to follow the diktat given under Section 69A of the IT Act.
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(This story originally appeared in on Feb 11, 2021)NEW DELHI: Top Twitter executives in India may face arrest with the Centre making it clear that its list of accounts sought to be censured over “inflammatory content”, especially those with the hashtag of farmers’ genocide, was “non-negotiable”, and warning its patience was wearing out over the refusal of the company to follow the diktat given under Section 69A of the IT Act.