Twitter censored tweets critical of India’s handling of the pandemic at its government’s request.
Twitter has removed more than 50 tweets. Reproachful of the Indian government’s treatment of the Covid pandemic and did as such in line with the Indian government.
First detailed by Indian news site MediaNama. The Indian government sent Twitter a crisis request on Friday to blue pencil 52 tweets. As indicated by a revelation notice on the Lumen information base. The censored accounts include a sitting member of India’s Parliament. Two filmmakers, an actor, and a West Bengal state minister.
One of the Twitter spokespeople cleared the statement. That the company may make specific tweets unable to be viewed by people within India if the tweets violate local law. Twitter says it told account holders before it retained substance to make them mindful that the move was made because of a legal solicitation from the government of India.
According to the Twitter spokesperson –
“When they receive a valid legal request, they review it under both the Twitter Rules and local law. If the content violates Twitter’s Rules, the content will be removed from the service”. “If it is determined to be illegal in a particular jurisdiction, but not in violation of the Twitter Rules. They may withhold access to the content in India only. In all cases. They notify the account holder directly, so they’re aware that we’ve received a legal order about the account.”
It isn’t the first occasion when that Twitter has bowed to pressure from the Indian government. During fights by farmers in February. The organization forever obstructed in excess of 500 accounts and eliminated others from being apparent within India.
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The Indian government issued a notice of noncompliance to the company, the New York Times reported at the time, which could have meant jail time for Twitter’s employees in India if the company had refused. Among the accounts suspended in February was Indian news magazine The Caravan (which was later reinstated):
The official handle of @thecaravanindia is withheld in India: pic.twitter.com/2t4FV5IgM0
— Vinod K. Jose (@vinodjose) February 1, 2021
Indian law restricts the distribution of material that the government thinks about slanderous or which could instigate savagery. As per the Lumen notice, one of the tweets that were blue-penciled in India (however which is as yet apparent external the nation) was this one from West Bengal state minister Moloy Ghatak, blaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making light of the reality of the Covid pandemic.
India is in the midst of a second wave of COVID-19 cases, which has made ventilators, medicine, and oxygen scarce.
According to the Johns Hopkins coronavirus resource center, India reported 346,786 new cases of the coronavirus on Friday, a new record high, and 2,624 deaths, also a new record. Less than 1.5 percent of the country’s population has been fully vaccinated.
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