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By Ritika Jain Karnataka High Court on Friday dismissed Twitter’s plea challenging the Centre’s takedown orders issued between February 2021 and 2022 observing it was devoid of merit. The high court also fined Twitter to the tune of ₹50 lakhs for not complying with the Centre’s directions to block tweets in a timely manner. “… (Twitter) was given notices and it did not comply...,” Justice S Krishna Dixit said. “Punishment for non-compliance is 7 years imprisonment and an unlimited fine. That also did not deter your client,” the judge added. “You have not given any reason on why you delayed com...
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By Ritika Jain In an interview with a YouTube channel, ex-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said the Indian government made several requests to take down tweets supporting the 2020 farmers’ protest and gag journalists critical of the ruling dispensation. This, Dorsey said, was followed up with threats to shut down the Twitter office in India if the microblogging website did not follow suit. He also admitted to a “raid” on Twitter employees and the office in India. Dorsey, who quit his position as Twitter CEO before SpaceX founder Elon Musk took over, was responding to a question on foreign government pr...
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By Saurav Das New Delhi— On 31 March this year, Kalim Ahmed, a journalist by profession, received an email from Twitter with the subject line “Twitter Notice of Withholding”. The social media giant informed him that it received a “legal removal demand” from the government of India to take down a Twitter thread he posted on 22 February 2023. Kalim had made a long thread of tweets detailing cases of hate speech delivered by a Telangana Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) named Raja Singh, now suspended from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The 23-year-old journalist from Guwahati posted videos...
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By Saurav Das The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) recentlytold the Parliament in July that it had issued 1,122 orders to block Twitter content till June this year. In 2021, this figure stood at 2,851 — against 2,731 in 2020 and 1,041 in 2019 — showing a steady rise in content takedown orders against the micro-blogging platform. Now a Right to Information (RTI) request filed by this reporter reveals that since 2009, the committee mandated to review such takedown orders has not ordered unblocking in a single case. Section 69A%20Where%20the%20Central%20Government,or%20p...
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