Twitter declined 'a number of orders' from Indian government, company says

Home >Companies >News >Twitter declined ‘a number of orders’ from Indian government, company says PremiumWhile Twitter has said it aims to comply with the IT rules, the deadline for it ended on 26 May. (File Photo: Reuters) 3 min read . Updated: 12 Jun 2021, 06:02 PM IST Prasid Banerjee The government has sent multiple notices to Twitter and threatened to revoke the intermediary protection offered by Section 79 of India’s IT Act, which protects platforms for being sued for acts by its users NEW DELHI: Micro-blogging giant Twitter said it has “declined a number of orders” from the Indian government, which the company didn’t agree with, and thought were in violation of Indian and international law, targeting very particular journalists or activists, etc. “Those accounts and tweets, in many instances have remained on the platform,” said Vijaya Gadde, chief legal officer at Twitter, adding that it’s a “very delicate balance to draw”. She was speaking at the RightCon 2021 conference on 10 June. “From a purely legal perspective, litigation is one tool and it’s not always the best tool, it’s a very blunt tool. If you don’t know the outcome, you can be taking some pretty big risks with…
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