Twitter India faced tough questions today including why it had not appointed a Chief Compliance Officer in India as it faced the Shashi Tharoor-led parliamentary committee on IT, sources said.
The US-based social media giant was told that “indian laws are supreme and the company has to abide by them” , sources said.
During a nearly 95-minute deposition before the parliamentary panel. Twitter India officials faced difficult questions from MPs across party lines,sources said.
Twitter said they stand prepared to work with the Committee on “Safeguarding citizens’ rights online in line with our principles of transparency, freedom of expression, and privacy.”
Twitter is the only major social media site yet to comply with new digital rules in force since May 26.
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