New Delhi: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has despatched a ultimate discover to Twitter asking it to abide by the norms below the brand new IT guidelines or face penalties over non-compliance.
“MeitY is dismayed to note that your responses to the ministry’s letters neither address the clarification sought by this ministry nor indicate full compliance with the rules,” it wrote.
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In a strong-worded letter, the IT Ministry wrote that “till date, Twitter has not informed about the details of the chief compliance officer as required under the rules”.
“Further, Resident grievance officer and nodal contact person nominated by you is not an employee of Twitter Inc. in India as prescribed by the rule. The office address of Twitter Inc as mentioned by you is that of a law firm in India which is also not as per the rules,” it added.
The Ministry burdened that after greater than per week, Twitter continues to refuse to adjust to the provisions of those guidelines. “Needless to state such non-compliance will lead to unintended consequences including Twitter losing exemption from liability as intermediary available under section 79 of the Information Technology (IT) act 2000,” the ministry warned.
According to the IT ministry, the refusal to conform demonstrates Twitter’s lack of dedication and efforts in direction of offering a protected setting expertise for Indian customers on its platform
“Despite being operational in India for more than a decade it is beyond belief that Twitter Inc has doggedly refused to create mechanisms that will enable the people of India to resolve their issues on the platform in a timely and transparent manner and through fair process by India based clearly identified resources. Leave alone proactively creating such a mechanism, Twitter Inc. is in the inglorious bracket of refusing to do so even when mandated by law,” it wrote criticizing the micro-blogging platform.
The IT Ministry emphasised that Indian customers deserve and demand a good mechanism to handle their grievances and resolve disputes. “Users who are abused on the platform or harassed or are subject to defamation of sexual abuse or become victims or a whole range of other abusive content must get a redressal mechanism that the same people of India have created through a due process of law,” it wrote.
As a gesture of goodwill, Twitter has been given one ultimate discover to right away comply or else face the withdrawal of exemption from legal responsibility out there below part 79 of the IT act 2000.
New IT Rules & What Twitter Stands To Lose
The new IT guidelines for social media corporations, which got here into impact on Wednesday, had been introduced on February 25. They require giant social media gamers to observe extra due diligence, together with the appointment of a chief compliance officer, nodal contact individual, and resident grievance officer.
Platforms with over 50 lakh registered customers, categorised as ‘Significant social media intermediaries’, got three months to adjust to the extra necessities as non-compliance will end in these platforms shedding the middleman standing that permits them to have immunity from liabilities for any third-party info and knowledge hosted by them.
Simply put, with out compliance, these corporations could be liable to face motion with respect to content material posted on their respective platforms.
