Did not shut down Twitter services, raid homes of executives: Rajeev Chandrasekhar in Parliament

Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar has stated within the Parliament that authorities authorities had not shut down the providers of American microblogging web site Twitter and didn’t raid properties of executives of Twitter for internet hosting content material of farmers’ agitation throughout 2021.

This allegation was first made by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a tv interview, which was repeatedly denied by Chandrasekhar on his social media deal with.

“Directions for blocking under section 69A were issued to block 3,750 Twitter URLs from August 2020 to December 2021. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology neither makes any request for user account data from any platform nor does it maintain such data,” Chandrasekhar stated in a written response to a query posed by Rajya Sabha member Jayant Chaudhary.

He stated that out of the three,750 URLs, Twitter didn’t adjust to 167 URLs. Therefore, he stated the federal government issued discover to Twitter on June 27, 2022 giving them a possibility to conform totally, “failing which they had to face significant consequences as mentioned in the IT Act, 2000.”

Subsequent to this discover, Chandrasekhar stated Twitter complied with all of the blocking instructions issued below part 69A of IT Act, 2000.

Section 69A of the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000 supplies energy to the Government to difficulty instructions to dam any info whether it is mandatory within the curiosity of sovereignty and integrity, defence of India, safety of the State, and pleasant relations with overseas States or public order.

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