Congress slams Twitter’s ‘double standards’
The Hindu
Party leaders say photographs of Delhi rape victim’s kin were shared by govt. agencies also
A day after social media giant Twitter temporarily blocked former Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s account allegedly following complaints from the NCPCR, the party on Sunday condemned the platform’s “double standards”. Twitter had also removed one of Mr. Gandhi’s tweets of a photograph of the parents of a nine-year-old girl, who was raped and brutally murdered in the national capital, after he met the victim’s family last Wednesday. Under Indian law, revealing the identities of sexual assault victims or their families is prohibited and may be taken as a violation of Twitter’s policy in India. On Wednesday, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) had asked the micro blogging site as well as Delhi Police to take action against Mr. Gandhi.More Related News