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NEW DELHI: Digital activists and experts said that the manner in which the Delhi Police special cell went to serve a notice to Twitter offices on Monday was meant to “bully” the company and sends a bad message to tech companies looking to invest in India. Neither MEITY nor Delhi Police are empowered by any law to object to such labeling, technology lawyer Mishi Choudhary told TOI, adding that the government was acting as a bully.
According to Choudhary, the move also sends a bad message to tech companies looking to invest in India. This sends a message to the world that Digital India is closed for business. Rule of Law no longer applies and every rule in the book can be twisted to control information and settle political scores. As an investor, who wants to risk their money in such a volatile, unpredictable environment, she added.
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It was the tears that Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually shed while addressing the medical and frontline personnel of his parliamentary constituency on May 21 that made news, not the fact that nowhere in that speech was there the slightest acknowledgment of the failures of his government, or a smidgeon of regret that so much devastation has happened under his watch.