New Delhi: Amid a steady tussle between Twitter and the central authorities over varied points, together with the new IT guidelines, Zee Media has acquired entry to the microblogging platform’s reply to the parliamentary panel.
The doc has Twitter’s solutions to the Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code Rules, 2021, the January 26 Republic Day incident, the Ghaziabad assault video case, and different such points.
New IT Rules:
On being requested about its considerations relating to the Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code Rules, 2021, also referred to as the Digital Media Ethics Rules 2021, stated that they’re dedicated to working with democratic governments globally to be sure that regulation of their enterprise and business is ‘sensible, life like and possible to implement’.Â
Twitter acknowledged that alongside with peer corporations, it has through varied commerce associations together with CII, FICCI, USISPF, USIBC, ASSOCHAM, IAMAI and AIC outlined its considerations with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) from April 2021 by means of May 2021.Â
It additionally talked about that it requested for an extension of timelines for compliance with the Rules. Twitter additionally acknowledged that ‘sure necessities’ of the Digital Media Ethics Rules 2021 ‘are past its major Act, ie the IT Act’.Â
“Some Rules are also incompatible with rights of users of the platform and of Twitter as a platform,” the social media large which has an estimated 1.75 crore customers in India, instructed the parliamentary panel reportedly headed by Shashi Tharoor.
Twitter was additionally requested to reply to the accusation that it has been ‘most reluctant’ to the new IT Rules, to which, they stated that they refute this accusation.Â
“Twitter is striving to comply with the new Guidelines and we are keeping the Government of India apprised of progress at every step of the process,” the microblogging platform added and knowledgeable that it has appointed an interim Chief Compliance Officer in addition to an interim Resident Grievance Officer and is trying to fill the place for a legislation enforcement nodal officer.
Content violating POCSO:
Twitter India was requested if they’ve a mechanism in place to report to Indian authorities any offensive content material on its platform violating the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO), to which, they stated which have been on the ‘forefront’ of responding to the evolving problem of stopping the exploitation of youngsters on the Internet.Â
“We have developed policies and platform capabilities designed to prohibit the creation and sharing of child sexual abuse material online. We care deeply about combating these crimes against children, and we proactively work to identify, prevent, and report all forms of child sexual exploitation on our service,” Twitter stated.
Ghaziabad assault video:
On the Ghaziabad assault video case, Twitter stated that they’ve supplied their assist and help to the legislation enforcement authorities and have additionally requested the legislation enforcement authorities to present URLs of any extra tweets which include unlawful content material.Â
Republic Day violence:
Twitter additionally commented on the allegations that that they had taken suo-motu motion after the violence on the US Capitol however refused to block content material that provoked violence after the farmers’ agitation at Red Fort in Delhi. Twitter stated that starting on January 26, their international crew supplied 24/7 protection and took enforcement motion judiciously and impartially on content material, developments, tweets, and accounts that had been in violation of the Twitter Rules. Twitter stated that additionally they suspended greater than 500 accounts that had been partaking in clear examples of platform manipulation and spam.
“Tackled misinformation based on the highest potential for real-world harm, and prioritized labelling of Tweets that were in violation of our synthetic and manipulated media policy,” Twitter stated.
Controversial map of India:
On being requested concerning the allegations that they selected to present the geo-location of sure areas of Ladakh as a part of China, Twitter stated, “Regrettably this issue was caused due to a software error combined with imperfect data resulting in an incorrect geo-tag.”Â
“We were in close touch with MeitY and MHA and kept them apprised on the matter,” Twitter stated.
