Microblogging site Twitter is facing several challenges in the country as it continues with the central government over new IT rules. During this period, Twitter has received several notices on several issues such as spreading communal unrest, obscene material, pornographic material depicting children, publishing a false map of India and closing the accounts of Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. .
wrong map of india
Two FIRs have been registered in UP and MP against senior Twitter officials in India for publishing a wrong map of the country. An FIR has been registered in this case at Khurja Kotwali of Bulandshahr district. Lawyer Praveen Bhati, a resident of Khurja Nagar in Bulandshahr district of UP, has filed a case at Khurja Kotwali Nagar police station saying that Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh have been taken out of India’s map by Twitter. Praveen Bhati is also the co-convener of Uttar Pradesh Bajrang Dal.
In MP too, an FIR has been registered against Twitter for the wrong map. Within hours of Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra’s order, Cyber Cell registered an FIR against Twitter MD Manish Maheshwari for showing Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as separate countries on the map of India.
cases of communal disturbance
Twitter MD Manish Maheshwari was recently summoned by Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad Police for posting an objectionable video regarding an attack on an elderly Muslim man. In this case, the Uttar Pradesh Police moved the Supreme Court against the order of the Karnataka High Court, which had stayed the punitive action against Maheshwari.
On June 24, the High Court asked the Ghaziabad Police not to take coercive action against Maheshwari and also said that she can be interrogated digitally.
On June 15, the Ghaziabad police registered a case against Twitter Inc., Twitter Communications India, news portal The Wire, journalists Muhammad Zubair and Rana Ayyub, as well as Congress leaders Salman Nizami, Muskoor Usmani, Shama Mohammed and author Saba Naqvi. . A case was registered against all of them for circulating a video of an elderly man who was attacked with an intention to create communal unrest.
parliamentary committee calls twitter
Twitter was once again on the receiving end after it temporarily blocked the account of Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for allegedly violating US copyright law. A committee of Parliament has sought a response from this microblogging site in the matter of temporary closure of Twitter accounts of Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor.
‘obscene content’
National Commission for Women Chairperson Rekha Sharma has written to the Managing Director of Twitter India asking her to immediately remove the “obscene and obscene material” and inform the steps taken in this regard within 10 days. A letter has also been written to the Commissioner of Police, Delhi, in which it has been said that the matter should be investigated and appropriate legal action should be taken.
child pornographic material
Delhi Police has issued a notice to microblogging site Twitter seeking information about the steps taken against the spread of child-related pornographic material on its platform. The notice was sent to Twitter on Tuesday. The Delhi Police had registered an FIR in this regard on a complaint by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), alleging that he allowed access to child pornography on its platform.
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