User Should Be Given Context: Koo CEO After Twitter Locks Minister's Account

Koo CEO Aprameya Radhakrishna's comments came after Twitter briefly blocked IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad from accessing his account over alleged violation of US copyright law.

Direct action on an account without giving the user the full context of the alleged violation and a chance to contest is akin to a social media platform taking final judgement call and not acting as an intermediary, Koo CEO Aprameya Radhakrishna said today. The comments by the top official of microblogging platform Koo came after Twitter briefly blocked IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad from accessing his account over alleged violation of US copyright law - a move that was immediately slammed by the him as being arbitrary and against the IT rules. The minister called out Twitter over the brazen arbitrariness and "running their own agenda". Twitter's actions are in gross violation of the IT rules, where they failed to provide any prior notice before denying access to the account, the minister said in a series of posts on Koo. Mr Prasad later also tweeted on the issue.