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Russia says it will slow down Twitter access over censorship requests Follow Us Question of the Day     A mobile phone user turns on Twitter application on his smartphone in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, March 10, 2021. Russian authorities say they have moved to slow down the speed of Twitter over its failure to remove the banned content an ... more > By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times - ...

Russias state communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, said it began the slowdown after it said Twitter failed to remove content encouraging suicide among children and containing information about drugs and child pornography.

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.metro.us/russia-moves-to-slow/"></div>MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Wednesday it was slowing down the speed of Twitter in retaliation for what it described as a failure to remove banned content, threatening to block the U.S. platform outright if it did not comply with its deletion demands. The move escalates a growing stand-off between Moscow and U.S. social […]<!-- AddThis Advanced ...

Twitter Accuses Texas AG Ken Paxton of ‘Unlawfully Abusing His Authority’ to Retaliate Against Ban of Trump Jerry Lambe Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton As Republican leaders continue to publicly vilify social media companies and back a panoplyunconstitutionalregulations ostensibly aimed at fighting online “censorship,” Twitter has gone on the offensive. The company on Monday filed a lawsuit accusing indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) of unlawfully abusing...

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The move is the government’s way of addressing the refusal by Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter to hand over data in connection with protests against new agriculture laws by the country’s farmers.

India threatens to put social media employees behind bars amid farmer protests Jami Ganz The Indian government has reportedly threatened to throw employees of social media giants behind bars in response to the companies’ refusal to share data linked to the country’s farmer protests. The move is the government’s way of addressing the refusal by Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter to hand over data in connection with protests against new agriculture laws by the country’s farmer...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The whirlwind of developments during 2021 on "net neutrality" rules that is probably inevitable given the change in administration gathered speed this week, when a federal district court in California denied an industry request to stay the effectiveness of Californias net neutrality law, the California Internet Consumer Protection and Net Neutrality Act of 2018. The ruling in American Cable Association et al. v. Becerra, No 2:18-cv-0...

February 26, 2021 On February 25, the government published its new rules under the Information Technology Act, 2009 bringing guidelines for internet intermediaries and digital media organisations. According to the government the basic essence of the Rules is to introduce a “soft touch oversight mechanism”, as it insists that platforms develop their own mechanisms to monitor and take down content, while building robust grievance redressal systems. The IT Rules, 2021 focus on, and impact, thr...

The government on Friday specified 5 million registered users in India as the threshold for a social media intermediary to be considered a significant social media intermediary as mentioned in the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021. The rules make a distinction between social media intermediaries and significant social media intermediaries, who have a large number of users. The government had said on Thursday, while notifying the Rules, t...