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Updated: June 29, 2021 10:24 IST At the heart of the dispute between Twitter and the Union government is who gets to decide what goes on the platform, and both parties are claiming to be defenders of free speech. Share Article AAA Both Twitter and the Indian government are claiming to be defenders of free speech. | Photo Credit: Reuters At the heart of the dispute between Twitter and the Union government is who gets to decide what goes on the platform, and both parties are claiming to be defenders of free speech. Twitter and India’s Union government aren’t in the best of terms of late. Problems emerged as early as in February when the government ordered the platform to remove content relating to farmer protests and to block several accounts. This was during the peak of the farmers’ agitation against the country’s newly enacted farm laws. ....
Advertisement China built itself a veritable “Great Firewall” over the years, with a system of online censorship and social media restrictions that has created an alternative internet for those within China. Now, India is trying to evolve its own way to similarly police the internet, within the grey areas afforded by India’s free speech laws. In the aftermath of protests in Delhi during last month’s Republic Day, the Narendra Modi government has been at loggerheads with Twitter over banning content and accounts which authorities deem unsavory to the establishment. While Twitter initially complied, it later partially rolled back the bans, stating freedom of speech and charging the Modi government with violating Indian laws. ....
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey meets Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in November, 2018. | twitter.com/jack/ It’s a fait accompli, one supposes. In record quick time, Twitter last week capitulated to the Narendra Modi government’s order that it ban a wide range of accounts that were critical of the latter’s actions regarding the farmers’ protests in India. The Indian government’s demand was accompanied by a threat that it would imprison Twitter’s employees in India if the social media giant failed to comply with the diktat. The ultimatum came as no surprise for a government that historian and commentator Ramachandra Guha recently described quite perfectly in an interview with journalist Karan Thapar as “authoritarian, sectarian, and incompetent”. ....
Twitter was rebuked by the government for not complying with its orders to take down certain content and warned the social media giant that it needs to obey local laws, even as the country’s lawmakers urged their followers to switch to home-grown rival Koo. ....
India slams Twitter amid face off over content, lawmakers spark exodus to rival Koo India has ordered Twitter to remove more than 1,100 accounts and posts that it alleges are spreading misinformation Reuters February 11, 2021 NEW DELHI: India rebuked Twitter on Wednesday for not complying with its orders to take down certain content and warned the social media giant that it needs to obey local laws, even as Indian lawmakers urged their followers to switch to home-grown rival Koo. India has ordered Twitter to remove more than 1,100 accounts and posts that it alleges are spreading misinformation about the widespread protests by Indian farmers against new agricultural laws. ....