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Twitter vs Indian government: Tweets must flow : Twitter s global policy team is prepping for a fight with Indian government

Vijaya Gadde, Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust, Twitter Inc.; image credit: Twitter Synopsis Twitter is in the eye of a storm yet again. The company’s top global-policy attorney is preparing for a tough fight with Indian policymakers. While it is relying on a well-formulated legal and policy strategy, the social-media giant would also need to do a delicate balancing act in India. From Egypt’s Arab Spring in 2011 to the ongoing farmers’ protest in India, one thing that hasn’t changed in Twitter’s global policy is its stance on free speech. “The tweets should flow,” Twitter’s former general counsel Alexander Macgillivray had said at the peak of the Egyptian revolution. A decade later, when the Indian government said that Twitter should block more than a thousand accounts that were allegedly part of “well-coordinated”

Farmers protest | Twitter says it has reached out to govt for formal dialogue

Updated: February 09, 2021 10:02 IST Tussle over the Centre asking the micro-blogging platform to remove some accounts related to farmers’ protest. Share Article AAA The Centre had earlier in February 2021, issued a notice to Twitter to comply with its order on removal of content related to ‘farmer genocide’ alleging that the material was designed to spread misinformation to inflame passions and hatred.   | Photo Credit: AP Tussle over the Centre asking the micro-blogging platform to remove some accounts related to farmers’ protest. Amid the ongoing tussle with the government over blocking of some accounts related to farmers’ protest, Twitter has reached out to Electronics and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for a formal dialogue.

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