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05 Jun, 2021 - 03:34 PM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
New Delhi: The government on Saturday issued one last notice to Twitter Inc asking it to immediately comply with the new IT rules, failing which it could face stern action and lose exemption from liability under section 79 of the IT Act, 2000. This essentially means that the platform could be held responsible for content posted by the users.
“The provisions for significant social media intermediaries under the Rules have already come into force on 26 May and it has been more than a week but Twitter has refused to comply with the provisions of these rules,” the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) wrote to Twitter s deputy general counsel, Jim Baker on Saturday.
On Wednesday, Twitter removed a post by Buhari which threatened punishment for regional secessionists who have been blamed for attacks on government building