New Delhi: Jack Dorsey, the previous CEO of Twitter on Tuesday made a stunning revelation that the Indian authorities had threatened to close down the social media platform and raid the properties of its staff if it didn’t adjust to its orders to dam sure accounts through the farmer’s protest. The authorities has strongly denied this allegation and accused Dorsey of mendacity and attempting to cowl up Twitter’s repeated violations of Indian regulation.
Earlier in April, Twitter’s present proprietor, Elon Musk stated that India has very strict social media legal guidelines and that he can’t transcend them. He made this comment in a Twitter Spaces interview with the BBC, the place he was requested about Twitter eradicating hyperlinks to a controversial BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“If it’s a choice between complying with the laws or going to jail, I’d rather comply with laws than have any of my people go to jail,” he stated. “We cannot go beyond the law of the country,” Musk added.
The documentary, titled “India: The Modi Question”, sparked outrage amongst Indians and the diaspora for its portrayal of Modi and his insurance policies. The authorities had banned the documentary from being proven on social media and different platforms in India, citing its delicate nature.
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Centre Rejects Jack Dorsey’s Claims
The authorities, in the meantime, has slammed Dorsey for his claims and stated that they’re an try to “brush out that very dubious period of Twitter’s history”. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, stated that Twitter beneath Dorsey and his crew had been in steady and repeated violations of Indian regulation from 2020 to 2022 and that it was solely in June 2022 that they lastly complied.
Chandrasekhar stated that nobody was raided or despatched to jail and that the federal government’s focus was solely on making certain the compliance of Indian legal guidelines. He stated that Dorsey’s Twitter regime had an issue accepting the sovereignty of Indian regulation and behaved as if the legal guidelines of India didn’t apply to it. He stated that each one social media intermediaries working in India should adjust to legal guidelines to make sure that the web is secure, trusted and accountable.
