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Even as the face-off between the Narendra Modi administration and Twitter continues to intensify with the social media defiantly refusing to follow orders to ban a host of accounts flagged by the government, the Centre has formulated draft rules to regulate all social media, OTT (Over The Top) platforms and news-related websites, NDTV reported.
Ravi Shankar Prasad-led IT ministry had asked Twitter to block scores of accounts following the violence on January 26. NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday did not mince words as it questioned the timing of Twitter's blogpost published ahead of a scheduled meeting of their representatives. Earlier in the day, the micro-blogging site had published a blog explaining why it had reinstated the accounts which were blocked on government's request following violence during the farmers' tractor rally on January 26. Following Twitter's blogpost, the ministry of information and technology (MeitY) took...