Updated May 27, 2021 · 07:09 pm The logo of the social networking website Twitter, displayed on a smart-phone screen. | AFP
The Centre on Thursday said that social media platform Twitter needs to stop beating around the bush and comply with the laws of the land, reported ANI.
“Law making and policy formulations is sole prerogative of the sovereign and Twitter is just a social media platform and it has no locus in dictating what should India’s legal policy framework be,” the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said in a statement.
This came after Twitter on Thursday said it was concerned about the “potential threat” to freedom of expression as India’s new social media rules came into effect.
The WhatsApp kerfuffleThe Centre’s Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code has now become a bone of contention between social media platforms and the Indian government with popular messa
New Delhi [India], May 27 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing on a batch of petitions challenging the newly enforced Information Technology Rules, 2021.
Taking the user privacy war to the court over new IT rules, Facebook-owned WhatsApp on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the Indian government in the Delhi