On Friday, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad revealed that his Twitter account was blocked for nearly an hour over the alleged violation of an American copyright law due to one of its tweets.
“Twitter’s actions indicate that they are not the harbinger of free speech that they claim to be but are only interested in running their own agenda, with the threat that if you do not tow the line they draw, they will arbitrarily remove you from their platform,” Prasad said in a series of Tweets.
Prasad alleged that the action and “agenda” by Twitter was the result of the government’s “no compromise” stand against the company after it failed to comply with the news rules.
The non-compliance has been Prasad’s IT Ministry reprimand Twitter over the past few weeks, while the company also its ‘safe harbour’ protection over third-party content, just when an FIR was filed against its India MD in relation to a probe by UP’s Ghaziabad Police.
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