Rahul Gandhi rants in a YouTube video after Twitter locks his account for compromising id of minor rape sufferer

In one other incident of shadow boxing between Congress and Twitter, Rahul Gandhi on Friday took to YouTube to slam Twitter after his account was briefly locked out final week for compromising the id of a minor rape sufferer in a tweet posted by him. Twitter and Congress have been concerned in a sparring match lately, to show the ‘neutral’ credentials of Twitter after its bias got here into query lately by the Modi authorities and common netizens throughout the globe.
A video barely longer than one-and-a-half-minute and titled “Twitter’s Dangerous Game” was launched on Rahul Gandhi’s official YouTube channel, whereby he alleged that Twitter was interfering in India’s politics by shutting down his account. “A company is making its business to define our politics. And as a politician, I don’t like it,” Gandhi mentioned.

“This is an attack on the democratic structure of the country. This is not an attack on Rahul Gandhi,” the senior Congress chief mentioned, whose account was briefly locked out for sharing an image of the mother and father of the nine-year-old Dalit lady who was allegedly raped and killed at a crematorium in Delhi Cantonment. “I have 19-20 million followers. You are denying them a right to an opinion.”
Interestingly, the “opinion” that Rahul Gandhi is speaking about is his supposed proper to compromise the id of a minor rape sufferer for petty politics, which isn’t allowed by legislation.
Railing in opposition to the microblogging web site, the Gandhi scion mentioned shutting down his account was patently unfair and it despatched a message that Twitter was not a impartial platform. Threatening the social media big, Gandhi mentioned, “For the investors, it is a very dangerous thing because taking sides in a political context has repercussions for Twitter.”
The Wayanad MP additionally accused Twitter of being beholden to the central authorities. “It is obvious now that Twitter is not a neutral objective platform. It is a biased platform which heeds to the directives of the government of the day,” Gandhi mentioned. It is pertinent to notice that Rahul Gandhi and the Congress social gathering had attacked the federal government hammer and tongs when the Modi authorities had taken steps to curb the unbridled energy exercised by tech-giants to silent voices that they deem politically inconvenient.
Twitter locks out Rahul Gandhi’s account briefly for violating its coverage
The controversy erupted final week when Gandhi’s account was briefly locked out by Twitter. It later issued an announcement on the incident, saying that the motion was taken as per the knowledge shared by the National Commission of Women (NCW) in response to the rules beneath the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
Social media behemoth Twitter on Wednesday this week knowledgeable a Delhi Court that it had locked the Twitter account of Rahul Gandhi as a result of the senior Congress chief had violated its coverage by sharing the photographs of the minor rape victims in a tweet posted by him.
Reportedly, the account was restored, however Rahul Gandhi was nonetheless smarting the snub by the social media big. Sources within the Congress IT cell advised OpIndia that the social gathering wished Twitter to both come out and say that they ‘locked out’ Rahul Gandhi’s account beneath stress from the Government of India or to a minimum of situation a remorse observe for doing so.
The sources additional added that the social gathering had threatened that they may ask all Congress supporters and employees to stop the platform if the social networking big doesn’t publicly apologise for ‘wrongly suspending’ Rahul Gandhi’s account. As a mark of solidarity with Rahul Gandhi, varied Congress leaders took to sharing the identical picture that bought the Gandhi scion’s account locked out over violation of the POCSO Act.