Twitter is simply the trailer, Facebook, Google and different web giants shall be handled in the identical means

After getting a rap on the knuckle by the Union authorities, the microblogging platform Twitter is mending its methods. The Jack Dorsey led platform on Friday banned ‘most’ of the accounts listed by India. India had despatched a listing of 257 accounts on thirty first January and 1178 Pak-Khalistani accounts on 4th February. In what could be termed as a change in techniques by the federal government, the Union Minister for Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday within the Upper House of the Parliament overtly known as out Twitter for its blatant hypocrisy citing the Capitol Hill scenario vis-a-vis the Red Fort siege.Twitter has blocked most of accounts listed by India. India had despatched 257 listing on thirty first Jan, 1178 Pak-Khalistani accounts despatched on 4th Feb.— Sidhant Sibal (@sidhant) February 12, 2021“During Capitol Hill, you stand with the police action and in violence at Red Fort, you take a different stand,” said the Minister.Prasad took a firmer stance the place he iterated that every one the massive techs want to evolve and abide by the Indian structure and legal guidelines of India. “We have immense respect for social media as it has empowered the citizens but today I want to clearly state that be it Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or WhatsApp they are free to work in India but they need to abide by the Constitution of India and laws of India,” stated Ravi Shankar Prasad.We have immense respect for social media because it has empowered the residents however right this moment I wish to clearly state that be it Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or WhatsApp they’re free to work in India however they should abide by the Constitution of India and legal guidelines of India. pic.twitter.com/DTwLf0Xc6S— Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) February 11, 2021The Modi authorities has proved that it’s going to not succumb to the autocracy of the Big Tech and in contrast to Donald Trump, will attempt to preserve this monster underneath test. Firstly, with the digital strike on Chinese espionage apps — the Modi authorities had despatched an oblique message to the unholy trifecta of Twitter, Google, and Facebook that if these firms didn’t convey a marked change in the way in which they function then the Union authorities shall be left with no different however to convey the hammer on it.However, your entire Twitter saga and the place of the centre should have put Google, Facebook, and different web giants in an uncomfortable place, for the centre by no means got here this aggressively in opposition to anybody of it.Facebook, which blows its personal bugle saying it has introduced the world collectively by connecting pals and households collectively, has apparent and obtrusive chinks in its armor. Mark Zuckerberg led Facebook has come underneath rising stress to do way more to fight state and political teams utilizing its platforms to unfold false and deceptive info.Facebook and its associated entity WhatsApp are attributed to spreading many of the faux information that traverses the fashionable cyber-world. In the Indian context, this drawback has develop into even gargantuan. The ideological bias continues to be distinguished in Facebook the place the conservative voices are extra usually than stifled.Read extra: ‘Play nice or get banned,’ Modi Govt has additionally despatched a tricky message to Facebook, Google and TwitterGoogle, the most important search engine on this planet has been repeatedly criticized for harvesting outrageous quantities of consumer information for promoting ads. Reported by TFI, Google had even deleted 7 million adverse critiques for TikTok in order that the Chinese app may get its outdated rankings again. However, with PM Modi and his authorities booting out the Chinese app in its entirety, Google’s last-ditch try didn’t pay any dividends.Read extra: Google deletes 5 million adverse critiques about TikTok. Hope it’s nonetheless headquartered within the US, not ChinaFacebook and Google are definitely going to lock horns with the federal government within the close to future because the centre is planning to convey the Personal Data Protection Bill which is at present underneath deliberation by a JPC headed by MP Meenakshi Lekhi. The draft of the invoice talks about using stringent guidelines on storing private in addition to monetary information inside India and a proposal to make expertise intermediaries extra accountable for content material posted on them. The invoice additionally states of making a Data Protection Authority of India (DPAI) to control these Big Techs.Facebook and Google have overtly said that they’re in opposition to the concept of storing their information in India as it should set a precedent for different nations to comply with. However, going by the present state of affairs, it appears to be like extremely unlikely that the federal government shall be shopping for this demand of the Silicon valley.The message is evident for the likes of Twitter, Facebook, and Google – play by the rulebook enshrined within the Indian structure, dispose of the partishanship, censoring of content material that adheres to an reverse political spectrum or don’t do any of the above and danger getting banned from the nation. Enough cases have confirmed that the Modi authorities is not going to waste a heartbeat if the Big Techs don’t fall in line.