India urges Twitter to remove tweets critical of COVID manipulation from Censorship News
Twitter is holding back some posts, including those made by lawmakers, after the Indian government issued an emergency order.
The Indian government called on the social networking platform Twitter to remove dozens of tweets, including from local lawmakers, who criticized how India handled the outbreak of the coronavirus, as COVID-19 cases once again set a world record.
Twitter has retained some tweets following a legal request from the Indian government, a company spokesman told Reuters news agency on Saturday.
The government issued an emergency order to censor tweets, which Twitter reported in the Lumen database, a Harvard University project.
Outrage as Twitter deletes tweets critical of Indiaâs Covid approach
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Cape Town â Twitter has been slammed for withholding hundreds of tweets critical of the Covid-19 crisis.
According to senators and human rights campaigners, the suspension of scores of tweets deemed critical of the Indian government s treatment of the coronavirus pandemic endangers people s health and stifles dissent, reported the Guardian.
Lumen from Harvard University, a website that maintains track of global government orders around online content, says that the Indian government has sent an emergency order to censor the tweets.
The tweets were blocked in India following a legal request from New Delhi, months after similar action was taken in response to criticism of the government s new agriculture rules, which triggered violent protests.
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The Indian government asked social media platform Twitter to take down dozens of tweets, including some by local legislators, that were critical of India’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, as cases of COVID-19 again hit a world record.
Twitter has withheld some of the tweets after the legal request by the Indian government, a company spokeswoman told the Reuters news agency on Saturday.
The government made an emergency order to censor the tweets, Twitter disclosed on Lumen database, a Harvard University project.
In the government’s legal request, dated April 23 and disclosed on Lumen, 21 tweets were mentioned.
Among them were tweets from a legislator named Revnath Reddy, a minister in the state of West Bengal named Moloy Ghatak and a filmmaker named Avinash Das.
Coronavirus-mired country makes emergency order to censor dissentious posts
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