‘Double requirements of social media will not be allowed’, stated IT minister RS Prasad

Miffed over Twitter’s non-compliance with authorities’s orders to take motion towards the handles spreading hate towards India, IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday stated that the double normal of the social media platforms won’t be allowed in India. “Be it Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Whatsapp, action will be taken if these platforms are misused,” the union minister stated whereas replying to a bunch of solutions in the course of the Question Hour within the Rajya Sabha.
Prasad furthered that if these firms need to work and faucet the Indian market, they’re welcome to take action, however they must adjust to the Indian legal guidelines and the Constitution. “Work in India. You have crores of followers here. Make money but you will have to abide by Indian laws and the Constitution,” the minister stated.
Irate by Twitter’s brazenness in complying with the Indian authorities’s orders to take motion towards these Twitter handles which have been spreading anti-India propaganda, Prasad stated: We have now flagged Twitter. Our division has engaged with Twitter. That’s why I didn’t need to touch upon this challenge exterior and selected the House to boost these questions. What is the difficulty that when there’s violence in US Capitol Hill, social media platforms stand by police investigation however when Red Fort is breached, the identical platforms go towards the Indian authorities? Red Fort is the image of our delight. We received’t enable this double normal.”
“What is this? You are trending hashtags supporting massacre, genocide?” the minister requested.
Furthering that the Indian Govt has immense respect for social media because it has a giant position to play within the Digital India programme, Prasad added that, nevertheless, if these platforms are used to unfold faux information and propagate violence towards India, the Government can be pressured to take motion towards it.
IT Minister RS Prasad irked over Twitter’s defiance
Earlier, we reported that RS Prasad had refused to satisfy Twitter officers after the social media large refused to take motion the anti-India and Khalistani accounts.
Earlier this week, the centre had issued a brand new discover to Twitter directing it to dam 1,178 accounts discovered to be from Pakistan peddling Khalistani secessionism. This was an addition to the federal government’s earlier discover asking them to ban 257 anti-India social media accounts for making hate speech.
The misuse of the social media platform for spreading anti-India propaganda, provocative content material and misinformation had irked the Union authorities. The authorities believes that the stated Twitter accounts have the potential to trigger a risk to public order.
Twitter fails to adjust to Indian authorities discover
However, Twitter confirmed its reluctance to adjust to the central authorities’s discover underneath Section 69A of the IT Act. The social media web site has banned just some handles, and Twitter stated it will not be taking motion towards any media, journalists, activists, and politicians regardless of the federal government’s discover.