The government directed Twitter to delete more than 4,000 posts from last year to June this year. During the proceedings of Parliament, the data of blocked URLs were given by the Ministry of IT. On behalf of the IT Ministry, Twitter was instructed to delete more than 2800 posts last year and more than 1100 posts by June this year, whereas in 2014 only 8 blocking orders were given.
Twitter said that if it continues like this, then all its work will stop
, on the other hand, on the blocking orders on Tuesday, Twitter had said that if it continues like this, then all its work will stop. This was stated by the counsel for Twitter in the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday, during the hearing of his petition. The High Court had directed him to give the complete list of such orders of the government in a sealed cover.
Why blocked URLs?
Apart from this, Rajiv Chandrashekhar, in response to a question asked during the proceedings in the Lok Sabha, said that in order to ensure safe and reliable and accountable internet, the Ministry of IT under Section 69A of the IT Act, 2000 to block URLs including Twitter accounts. issued instructions. He said that the IT ministry does not maintain the data of accounts suspended by Twitter.
Twitter has 24 million users in India There are
217 million active users of Twitter in the world. It has 77 million users in the US and 24 million in India. Around 500 million tweets are made every day around the world. Twitter may be a loss-making company, but its indirect value is quite high.
