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Twitter Grudgingly Partly Complied With Orders, India Flags: 10 Facts Twitter is free to formulate its own rules and guidelines. But Indian laws which are enacted by the Parliament of India must be followed irrespective of Twitter s own rules and guidelines, the government said
Updated: February 11, 2021 12:40 pm IST
Jack Dorsey s Twitter has also run into a controversy in India (File)
New Delhi: The government rebuked Twitter on Wednesday for not complying with its orders to take down over 1,300 accounts and warned the social media giant that it needs to obey local laws. Several BJP leaders doubled down on the message as they urged their followers to switch to Twitter s home-grown rival Koo. The government has ordered Twitter to remove accounts and posts that it alleges are spreading misinformation about the farmers protests against new agricultural laws. Twitter said in a public blog post that it had not fully complied with the government s o
Twitter cannot allow misuse of its platform for anti-India campaign, IT Secretary tells top execs
Twitter cannot allow misuse of its platform for anti-India campaign, IT Secretary tells top execs
Lawfully passed orders are binding on any business entity and they must be obeyed immediately, IT Secretary Ajay Sawhney told top Twitter executives.
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UPDATED: February 11, 2021 01:04 IST
[REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE] The Twitter logo outside the company headquarters in San Francisco, California, US (Photo Credits: Reuters)
Micro-blogging platform Twitter seems to have landed in serious trouble. On Wednesday, the government virtually read out the riot act to Twitter executives who had sought a meeting with the Secretary in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).