Twitter has lost its legal protection in india from prosecution over user’s posts because of its failure to comply with new rules requiring it to appoint key officers based in the country, government sources said today as a case was filed in uttar pradesh against social media giant over Tweets on an assault that the police say attempted to incite communal trouble.
The police FIR charges Twitter and several journalists for inciting “communal sentiments” with posts sharing the man’s allegations.
Twitter has not yet complied with all provisions of the rules that came into force on May 25, sources in the Ministry of Electronics and IT said. “Due to their non-compliance their protection as an intermediary is gone. Twitter is liable for penal actions against any indian law just as any publisher is”, the sources said.
The government said that twitter is the only platform that has not complied with the given set of rules.
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