How Twitter fell out of favour with the Union government?
The Hindu
At the heart of the dispute between Twitter and the Union government is who gets to decide what goes on the platform, and both parties are claiming to be defenders of free speech.
Twitter and India’s Union government aren’t in the best of terms of late. Problems emerged as early as in February when the government ordered the platform to remove content relating to farmer protests and to block several accounts. This was during the peak of the farmers’ agitation against the country’s newly enacted farm laws. The micro-blogging platform first followed the government’s order and blocked a few hundred accounts. It later restored them, defending that they did not violate any of the company’s policies. The platform contested the IT ministry’s order and declined to abide by it. (Subscribe to our Today's Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click to subscribe for free.)More Related News