For the past few days, there has been a tussle between Twitter and the government regarding the new IT rules. The government is pressurizing to accept the new rules.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, headed by Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, on Tuesday directed the Secretariat to take a written demand from Twitter within two days on the grounds on which the social media platform has blocked Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. blocked accounts. The letter can be sent to Twitter today. The parliamentary panel’s action comes at a time when the central government and Twitter are at loggerheads over new social media and mediation guidelines.
Twitter on June 25 “temporarily blocked Prasad’s account for 1 hour only due to a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notice”. The Union ministry had taken strong objection to Twitter’s decision to block him for an hour and termed its action as arbitrary and a gross violation of India’s IT rules.
Ravi Shankar Prasad had complained
Ravi Shankar Prasad had posted on Ku and said, friends! Something very strange happened today. Twitter blocked my account for about an hour, arguing that the alleged grounds were in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the USA and later allowed me to access the account.”
Twitter in question
Let us tell you that the controversy is increasing for Twitter as the Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh governments have decided to initiate legal action against Twitter for putting a distorted map of India. On June 28, Twitter showed the Union Territories of Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir outside India on a map. The social media platform removed the picture amid huge uproar.
At the same time, Delhi Police has now registered a case against Twitter for not removing pornographic content related to children. This case has been registered by Delhi Police on the complaint of National Commission for Protection of Child. Recently, Delhi Police’s Cyber Cell DCP Anyesh Roy was also summoned by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights in the matter.
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