Twitter has not yet despatched the small print of the Chief Compliance Officer to the federal government.
A few days after the federal government requested all social platforms to comply by the new IT pointers, virtually all main social media companies have adopted swimsuit. However, Twitter is yet to ship the small print to the Centre, sources mentioned.
Most of the main social media intermediaries have shared the small print of their Chief Compliance Officer, Nodal Contact Person and Grievance Officer with Ministry of Electronics and IT, as required by the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.
Significant social media intermediaries like Koo, Sharechat, Telegram, LinkedIn, Google, Facebook, WhatsApp and so on. have shared particulars with the ministry as per the requirement of the new guidelines.
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Twitter nonetheless not following the foundations
After a agency response from the federal government Thursday, Twitter despatched a communication late final evening, sharing particulars of a lawyer working in a regulation agency in India as their Nodal Contact Person and Grievance Officer.
The Rules require that these designated officers of the numerous social media firms should be the staff of the corporate and resident in India.
Twitter has not yet despatched the small print of the Chief Compliance Officer to the Ministry.
Govt’s stern warning to Twitter
In a fierce response to Twitter over its assertion elevating concern over ‘potential menace to freedom of expression’ in India, the Centre on Thursday requested the micro-blogging platform to ‘cease beating across the bush and comply with the legal guidelines of the land’.
“Twitter needs to stop beating around the bush and comply with laws of the land. Law making and policy formulations is sole prerogative of the sovereign and Twitter is just a social media platform and it has no locus in dictating what should India’s legal policy framework should be,” the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology mentioned in an announcement.
“Twitter’s statement is an attempt to dictate its terms to the world’s largest democracy. Through its actions and deliberate defiance, Twitter seeks to undermine India’s legal system,” the ministry went on to add within the searing assertion.
