In this regard, a Twitter spokesperson said, “Our country’s blocking policy makes it clear that it is necessary to block access to certain content in response to a valid legal demand or when the content is found to be in violation of local law. It is possible.
Twitter has ‘blocked’ around 35 tweets following a legal request from the Indian government. This information has been obtained from the information available on the Lumen database. According to the information, on June 21, Twitter had received legal requests from the Government of India against 37 tweets. Since the tweet has been withheld, it cannot be independently verified.
The Lumen Database is an independent research project that studies legal orders prohibiting online content. Requests received by Twitter to withhold content are published on its site.
Twitter spokesperson gave this answer in this matter
When contacted, a Twitter spokesperson said, “Our country’s blocking policy clearly states that it is in response to a legitimate legal demand or when content is found to violate local law(s). , it may be necessary to block access to certain content. According to the spokesperson, this restriction is limited to the specific jurisdiction/country where the content is considered illegal.
If the account holder has an e-mail associated with the Twitter account, then a message is sent to the same. So that the user knows that Twitter has received a legal order related to the account. Twitter recently banned 50 tweets following a June 17 legal order.
Twitter bans information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad’s account
Let us tell you that this American microblogging company Twitter and the government are constantly at loggerheads over the new IT rules. Even after the new IT rules came into effect from May 26, the company is not following these rules, due to which its problems are increasing continuously.
Meanwhile, Twitter on Friday temporarily suspended the account of Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for alleged violation of the US Copyright Act (DMCA) amid deteriorating relations with the Indian government over new IT regulations. This is the first case of such a ban on the account of a Union Minister.
Criticizing this move of the American social networking company, the minister called it an arbitrary attitude and a gross violation of IT rules. He also said that the microblogging site has violated new IT rules that require the intermediary to give notice to the user before blocking access to the account. The DMCA notice is understood to contain 2017 tweets made by Prasad. Twitter said it had lifted the ban but retained the referenced tweet.
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