Taking action on Haryana minister Anil Vij for his tweet against climate activist Disha Ravi, social media giant Twitter on Monday, has sent a notice to Vij
Twitter sends notice to Haryana Minister Anil Vij about tweet on Disha Ravi
However, Twitter said, it investigated the reported content and found that it is not subject to removal under the Twitter rules or German law, and accordingly it didn t take any action on it.
BusinessToday.In | February 15, 2021 | Updated 20:26 IST
In the Hindi tweet, Vij had said, Whoever has seeds of nation s opposition in mind should be completely destroyed, be it Disha Ravi or anyone else .
Haryana Minister Anil Vij has received a notice from micro-blogging site Twitter about a tweet by him on Disha Ravi, which was reported by a German user, but no action has been taken by the company.
Updated Feb 15, 2021 | 20:39 IST
The tweet was initially blocked on the basis of a complaint which cited that the post violated the Network Enforcement Act in Germany. Anil Vij (file photo) | Photo Credit: ANI
New Delhi: Haryana Minister Anil Vij was served notice by Twitter for his tweet which said that seeds of anti-nationalism. should be destroyed . Shortly later, the microblogging site did a U-turn and said that the tweet was not subject to removal . While deleting the tweet, the Twitter notice had cited that the post was being removed on the basis of a complaint by a Germany-based individual.
NEW DELHI: After Twitter was forced to suspend handles branded “objectionable” by the Union government, the Supreme Court on Friday sought the social media platform’s response to a PIL seeking a direction to the government to frame a legal mechanism to weed out communal, casteist and divisive content freely circulated on the platform.
A bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian didn’t require much persuasion to entertain the PIL filed by Vinit Goenka, a member of the governing council of the Centre for Railway Information Systems in the ministry of railways. The bench issued notices to the Centre and Twitter Communications Private Ltd, Mumbai.