So WOKE that it didn’t want POSH: Twitter had no Prevention of Sexual Harassment committee for a few years

Currently within the information for all of the improper causes and after shedding its ‘Intermediary’ standing granting it immunity from going through the music from the Indian regulation authorities — Twitter’s troubles proceed to mount. According to a Sunday Guardian Live report, it has been revealed that the Indian arm of the US-based firm up till the top of March 2019 had not arrange an Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) as required beneath the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, six years after its inception within the nation.Despite two circumstances of sexual harassment rising from the Delhi and Bangalore workplace of the corporate, Twitter Communications India Private Limited didn’t arrange ICC, because the submitting submitted by the corporate to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) on 19 September 2019 for the monetary 12 months April 2018-March 2019 reveals.The non-constitution of an ICC attracts a penalty, together with the imposition of a effective as much as Rs 50,000 and twice the quantity of effective for the repetition of the identical offence. Further, the Act gives for withdrawal, non-renewal or cancellation of enterprise licences, because the case could also be, in case of repeated non-compliance.And this isn’t the primary time that Twitter has been caught red-handed for its lacklustre insurance policies relating to sexual harassment circumstances. Reported by TFI, the corporate has already lied to National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) when requested about its mechanism for coping with little one pornography and different issues regarding little one welfare on social media.When NCPCR approached Twitter India and advised it to report circumstances of kid pornography and different offences to the police, as directed by the POSCO act, the Indian arm of the social media platform purposefully lied that such issues fell beneath the ambit of Twitter Inc, primarily based in California, United States.However, upon digging round, the Child rights physique discovered that the corporate was mendacity with a plain face. The NCPCR chief remarked that Twitter Communications India has issued 10,000 shares, out of which 9,999 are owned by Twitter Inc.Read More: NCPCR needs FIR on Twitter India for POCSO Act violations and denying connections with Twitter IncThe fee additionally discovered that two of the three administrators on the board of Twitter Communications India had been truly workers of Twitter Inc. Thus, making it clear as day that Twitter India was certainly associated to Twitter Inc.Consequently, the fee requested Delhi Police to e-book Twitter Communications India Private Limited beneath part 199 of the Indian Penal Code. Furthermore, the NCPCR wrote a letter to the IT Ministry requesting that kids’s entry to the social media platform be restricted for seven days till the social media platform is judged protected for youngsters and begins to comply with India’s IT requirements.“Twitter India Pvt Ltd and Twitter Inc, both have lied during the NCPCR investigation. Gave false information which is against the IPC section 199 in India. We have asked the Delhi Police to file an FIR in the matter,” mentioned Priyank Kanoongo, NCPCR chief.Reported by TFI, whereas all massive social media firms have adhered to the brand new compliance IT legal guidelines of the nation, it’s the Jack Dorsey owned platform that’s evading and dodging the Indian authorities after the deadline to adjust to the provisions of the IT guidelines elapsed on May 26.As a outcome, the corporate, final Tuesday misplaced its ‘intermediary’ standing and now Twitter India MD or another prime government functionary may face police questioning and prison legal responsibility beneath IPC over ‘unlawful’ and ‘inflammatory’ content material posted on the platform by any person.The incontrovertible fact that Twitter took greater than six years to kind an ICC ought to communicate volumes in regards to the form of environment the corporate creates for its workers. And what’s extra dumbfounding is the corporate’s lack of coverage to clear its digital house of kid sexual abuse materials. With such sketchy behaviour, the federal government ought to dial-up its actions on Twitter by a number of notches.