Congress Alleges Twitter Blocked Its Handle, Leaders’ Accounts Under Govt Pressure

Congress Alleges Twitter Blocked Its Handle, Leaders’ Accounts Under Govt Pressure

SUMMARY

This development comes after the microblogging site had blocked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s account for sharing a photo with a rape victim's relatives

A bench of Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh has posted the hearing on the petition seeking initiation of legal action against Gandhi for September 27

Interestingly, the micro-blogging platform has been on the government’s crosshairs for the past few months as it dilly-dallied on complying with the Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code, Rules 2021

Principal opposition party Congress on Thursday (August 12) alleged that Twitter had blocked its account @INCIndia under pressure from the Narendra Modi government. A Twitter spokesperson explained the action, saying,: “We were alerted by NCPCR about specific content on our platform that allegedly revealed the identity of an alleged sexual assault victim’s (and a minor’s) parents. We reviewed it against Twitter Rules and policies, as well as the concerns expressed as a matter of the Indian law.”

This development comes after the microblogging site had blocked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s account for the same reason. The American tech giant told the Delhi High Court on Wednesday (August 11) that it had removed an offending tweet that had a picture of Gandhi with the parents of a 9-year-old alleged rape and murder victim.

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