Twitter cares about own agenda, not free speech: What RS Prasad said on being 'denied' account access | Read

Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad hit out at Twitter for denying him access to his account for almost an hour, saying that his statements "calling out the high-handedness and arbitrary actions of Twitter have clearly ruffled its feathers".

Something "highly peculiar" happened today, said Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on the Koo app, adding that Twitter denied him access to his account for almost an hour on the alleged grounds that there was a "violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the USA" Twitter’s actions indicate that they are not the harbinger of free speech that they claim to be but are only interested in running their own agenda, with the threat that if you do not tow the line they draw, they will arbitrarily remove you from their platform. It is apparent that my statements calling out the high handedness and arbitrary actions of Twitter, particularly sharing the clips of my interviews to TV channels and its powerful impact, have clearly ruffled its feathers. The IT minister said Twitter subsequently allowed him to access the account.