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He said that the government's objective is to ensure an open, safe, trusted and accountable internet for citizens.
Elon Musk has, through independent journalist Matt Taibbi, released internal documents that seem to show that Twitter, after being requested by Joe Biden’s campaign managers, broke its own norms to scrub out all references to Hunter Biden’s shenanigans that could have implicated his father.
The court-appointed technical committee had submitted its report after investigating allegations of snooping on several eminent citizens.
In the past one month, Twitter has withheld tweets of Indian journalists, politicians from INC, AAP, etc and suspended nearly 100 accounts in response to legal requests made by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Minister of State for Information Technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a written reply to the Parliament said neither the IT Act nor the above said rules contravene the freedom of speech and expression or the right to privacy.
According to the police statement, Twitter is purporting to be both investigating authority and adjudicating authority, but has no legal sanction to be either.
A Twitter spokesperson had said: “Right now, we are concerned by recent events regarding our employees in India and the potential threat to freedom of expression for the people we serve.”
Large social media firms Facebook and Twitter can lose their intermediary privileges today for failing to comply with the new IT law. Losing the tag would mean being held accountable for the content posted on their platforms. The impact will be minimal for on users, say analysts.
Indian laws enacted by parliament must be followed irrespective of Twitter’s own rules and guidelines, Electronics and Information Technology secretary tells Twitter officials, expressing strong displeasure at the social media network's reluctance to take down accounts that abuse freedom of speech.
The bench also allowed Holey to approach the court at any time during this period in case the police decide to take any coercive action against her, or if any of her rights were breached.
The national scheduled castes panel on Tuesday issued notices to Union HRD Secretary and IIT-Madras Director asking them to appear before it on June 8 amid a political row over de-recognition of a students' body comprising mostly dalits.
Instead of nurturing the spirit of debate, we have become aggressive, bigoted and abusive
Union Minister for Communication, Information and Technology, Kapil Sibals website was hacked by hacktivist group Anonymous Indian arm today.
Egypt's new Islamist president Mohamed Mursi, speaking in regard to clashes at U.S. embassies in the Muslim world, said freedom of expression carries responsibilities when expression threatens peace and stability.
On Assange's hearing in London, CNBC-TV18’s Sanjay Suri explains, “Given the easing of bail restrictions, Assange, seems to be coming in from the cold for now.
