Days after its local office was raided by a special squad of New Delhi police, Twitter spoke out against this "form of intimidation," saying it's meant to encourage compliance over India's new IT regulations, which mandates content moderation. The company warned such enforcement would "inhibit free, open public conversation." Critics also suggest the rules are aimed at silencing opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration.
Twitter called the recent visit by police to its Indian offices a form of intimidation and said it was concerned by some of the requirements in New Delhi’s new IT rules. Speaking for the first time since a special squad of Delhi police made a surprise visit to two of its offices on Monday, Twitter …
On Monday, a team of officers from the Special Cell, an elite branch of the police in charge of investigating terrorism and organized crime in New …
On Wednesday, a top Indian official held a virtual meeting with global executives of Twitter. There the social media giant was told that it was "welcome to do business in India", but it had to follow the laws of the country "irrespective of Twitter's own rules and guidelines". The backdrop of the …
Twitter has removed more than 50 tweets critical of the Indian government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, and did so at the request of the Indian government. First reported by Indian news site MediaNama, the Indian government sent Twitter an emergency order on Friday to censor 52 tweets, …
Two weeks ago, protests by farmers in India turned violent, even as the country was celebrating the anniversary of its democratic constitution. As …
An ongoing tussle between the Indian government and Twitter over digital content regulation has drawn global attention to the threats facing freedom …
A new report from The Wall Street Journal today says that India’s movement has “threatened to jail employees” of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter. This comes as the rift between India officials and social media companies continues to grow. The report provides some background on the situation in …
On most days, Network Capital, a business networking group with over 67,000 members on Facebook (FB), focuses on providing its community with information on job vacancies, higher education, and careers. Recently, however, the group has been flooded with posts from users looking for hospital beds, …
Farmers in India have turned to Twitter, Facebook, Twitch, Discord and other platforms as part of their protest against agricultural reforms by the government. In response, Prime Minister Narenda Modi demanded tech companies block hundreds of accounts, threatening to jail their employees if his order isn't obeyed. Read more about the protests and the position tech firms find themselves in.
