India Blocking Requests To Twitter

India made the highest number of legal demands globally to remove content posted by verified journalists and news outlets on Twitter during July-December 2021, the micro-blogging platform said.

Twitter has requested the Karnataka High Court to reverse a few orders from the Centre to block content, arguing that the orders are arbitrary and show "disproportionate use of power", according to sources familiar with the filings.

Twitter has been issued a notice directing it to comply with all the government’s past orders by July 4, according to an official source. The Ministry of Electronics and IT has set the deadline for the microblogging service to comply with its blocking orders, failing which Twitter may lose intermediary status, which means it will be liable for al...

Twitter has allegedly censored some tweets and/ or blocked handles of various users in India.

Twitter was asked by the government to block multiple accounts and some tweets from advocacy group Freedom House, journalists, politicians, and supporters of farmers' protest, according to a document filed by the platform on June 26.

Twitter has blocked four accounts in India - including one belonging to Canadian-Punjabi singer Jazzy B, who has frequently tweeted in support of farmers protesting the government's agriculture laws

Hours after Twitterblocked around 250 accounts for tweeting, or retweeting, with the #ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide hashtag, and making "fake, intimidatory and provocative tweets" in connection with the ongoing farmers' protest, the social media giant began unlocking some of them

Bollywood actor Payal Rohatgi alleged Thursday that Mumbai Police had blocked her on Twitter, prompting Maharashtra Chief Minister's wife, whom she had tagged, to request the cops to look into the issue.

India made the highest number of legal demands globally to remove content posted by verified journalists and news outlets on Twitter during July-December 2021, the micro-blogging platform said.

Twitter has requested the Karnataka High Court to reverse a few orders from the Centre to block content, arguing that the orders are arbitrary and show "disproportionate use of power", according to sources familiar with the filings.

Twitter has been issued a notice directing it to comply with all the government’s past orders by July 4, according to an official source. The Ministry of Electronics and IT has set the deadline for the microblogging service to comply with its blocking orders, failing which Twitter may lose intermediary status, which means it will be liable for al...

Twitter has allegedly censored some tweets and/ or blocked handles of various users in India.

Twitter was asked by the government to block multiple accounts and some tweets from advocacy group Freedom House, journalists, politicians, and supporters of farmers' protest, according to a document filed by the platform on June 26.

Twitter has blocked four accounts in India - including one belonging to Canadian-Punjabi singer Jazzy B, who has frequently tweeted in support of farmers protesting the government's agriculture laws

Hours after Twitterblocked around 250 accounts for tweeting, or retweeting, with the #ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide hashtag, and making "fake, intimidatory and provocative tweets" in connection with the ongoing farmers' protest, the social media giant began unlocking some of them

Bollywood actor Payal Rohatgi alleged Thursday that Mumbai Police had blocked her on Twitter, prompting Maharashtra Chief Minister's wife, whom she had tagged, to request the cops to look into the issue.