From the beginning of the new century, the use of social platforms in India grew rapidly as governments gave way to social media and made plans suited to them.
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In the final notice sent by the Narendra Modi government to Twitter, it has been told that till now the Government of India has shown goodwill with social media, but now be ready to face the consequences. This final notice from the Government of India needs to be understood with the full ups and downs of social media, which is reminiscent of the story of ‘Bhasmasur’.
January 26, 2021, the darkest day in Indian history, when miscreants under the guise of the peasant movement carried out violence on the Red Fort and tried to take democracy hostage. When the Delhi Police searched the lines of this violence, then this wire reached the toolkit from Twitter and then through Khalistan reached the conspiracy of Pakistan. Regarding the toolkit that opened the strings of this conspiracy, the Joint Commissioner of Cyber Cell of Delhi Police, Prem Nath said that in the first action of the toolkit there was a plan for digital strike and physical action on 26 January and whatever happened on 26 January, it was from this toolkit. Exactly get.
The police also said that the organization which was behind this is banned in India and is pro-Khalistan. When the investigation progressed, the names of Bhajan Singh Bhinder and Peter Frederick, associated with Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, surfaced. From here there was a conflict between social media and the Government of India. To stop anti-national activities, the central government had to enact a new law, following which Twitter has been avoiding.
What was the kindness of the Government of India?
In the final notice sent to Twitter by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, it has been said that the rules which have been made applicable to important social media institutions, have become effective from 26 May 2021. Before warning of action at the end of the notice, it has been said that- “India, the world’s largest democracy, has been one of the first countries, apart from the US, where Twitter was given opportunities in an encouraging way.” Hardly any social media can deny this fact, but how much this platform was used in democracy to reach out to the people, politicians and political parties cannot deny it.
2019 Lok Sabha Elections and Digital War!
University of Michigan Associate Professor Joyojit Pal and Microsoft Bangalore Research Fellow Anmol Panda have done a detailed analysis of the use of social media in the 2019 General Elections, revealing that PM Narendra Modi was given 430 million rupees by the BJP during the General Elections. While Arun Jaitley got 108 million, Amit Shah 355 million, Rajnath Singh 27 million, Sushma Swaraj 21 million and BJP office 403 million retweets, while Congress got 80 million and Samajwadi Party. Akhilesh Yadav got 45 million retweets. That is, the BJP adopted an aggressive attitude to convey its word from social media to the country and the world. The rest of the parties were a little behind, but all together made Twitter an integral part of Indian politics, which also stunned a large population of India. Increase the power of social media.
Why remember the story of Bhasmasura?
There is a mention of a demon named Bhasmasura in Hindu scriptures. Legend has it that once the demon shook Lord Shiva sitting on Mount Kailash with his unshakable tenacity. When God found out who was the one who needed his help like this, he turned out to be a demon named Bhasmasura. Eventually Mahadev appeared in front of him and asked him to ask for a boon. Bhasmasura asked for a boon that whoever he lays his hand on, it should be burnt to ashes. Mahadev also gave him this boon, but as soon as he got the boon, Bhasmasura ran to make Lord Shiva a victim. In this hour of crisis, Mahadev had to take shelter in the cave and Lord Vishnu had to masquerade as a beautiful woman named Mohini and dance with her. While dancing, Bhasmasura put his hand on his own head and was burnt to ashes himself. Right now only half of its context appears in the Twitter story.
Social media cannot be bigger than the government
The use of social platforms in India grew rapidly from the beginning of the new century as governments gave way to social media, developed plans to adapt to them, but within two decades, social media has grown to behave like a parallel government. . Although everyone knew that this is a very powerful medium, which has the ability to bring a large group together and make it stand on one platform. These groups can share ideas, make plans and convey their views to the relevant bodies to bring the plans on the ground. This is an ‘ideal model’, in which social media users are expected to take positive steps and make good use of a platform, but here it is also necessary to know that ‘ideal’ in the definition of social science is a hypothetical. Social media can also be used in terrorist activities, can also be used to destabilize and pressure a country, that is, there is already a possibility of misuse of any platform in comparison to its use in the society, which is now It is visible on the ground, in which a repetition of a story of the demon Bhasmasura is visible.
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