Centre vs Twitter row escalates: A timeline
Centre vs Twitter row escalates: A timeline
Following the Republic day violent clashes between protesting farmers and Delhi police, Twitter has come under increasing criticism over its judgment in allowing or blocking content on its platform.
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Twitter has come under increasing criticism from several governments across the world (Image Credits: Reuters)
Popular microblogging platform Twitter has come under increasing criticism from several governments across the world over its judgment in allowing or blocking content on its platform. Many contend that the company s content regulation policies remain arbitrary and ad hoc.
The ongoing spat between the Government of India and social media platform Twitter is also growing by the day. On Thursday, Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in the Parliament said, “We respect social media a lot, it has empowered the common people. Social media has a big role in the Digital India
Twitter cannot allow misuse of its platform for anti-India campaign, IT Secretary tells top execs
Twitter cannot allow misuse of its platform for anti-India campaign, IT Secretary tells top execs
Lawfully passed orders are binding on any business entity and they must be obeyed immediately, IT Secretary Ajay Sawhney told top Twitter executives.
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UPDATED: February 11, 2021 01:04 IST
[REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE] The Twitter logo outside the company headquarters in San Francisco, California, US (Photo Credits: Reuters)
Micro-blogging platform Twitter seems to have landed in serious trouble. On Wednesday, the government virtually read out the riot act to Twitter executives who had sought a meeting with the Secretary in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
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