NEW DELHI.
Twitter Inc said on Thursday it was worried about the safety of its staff in India and potential threat to freedom of expression, days after police visited its office as part of a probe related to the social media firm’s tagging of certain posts as manipulated.
Read AlsoTwitter: Concerned about staff safety in India, need 3 more months to comply with new rulesTwitter Inc said on Thursday it was worried about the safety of its staff in India, days after police visited its office as part of a probe related to the social media firm’s tagging of certain posts as manipulated.
Right now, we are concerned by recent events regarding our employees in India and the potential threat to freedom o… https://t.
co/tILRDfoCx5— Twitter Public Policy (@Policy) 1622100894000The micro-blogging site urged the technology ministry to give it three more months to comply with the new IT rules that came into effect from May 26.
, which include the appointment of an Indian grievance officer to deal with complaints.
However, most of the Indian Twitter users were not having any of it and slammed the social media platform for overplaying the ‘freedom of expression’ card while themselves suspending other Twitter accounts and flouting Indian rules.
Twitter crying Freedom of Expression.
Beat that hypocrisy.
Yours truly,Formerly de-platformed https://t.
co/CLfRNuZYms— Rashmi Samant (@RashmiDVS) 1622112341000.
@Policy Freedom of Expression as per your rules? You can suspend accounts because they violated YOUR rules.
If you… https://t.
co/FwnIWfLhZQ— Facts (@BefittingFacts) 1622114799000What happens to “transparency” when you decide who is a genuine fact-checker, based on whose reports you mark some… https://t.
co/5qgwbvaN5u— Surajit Dasgupta (@surajitdasgupta) 1622116661000’Restore Kangana Ranaut’s account first and then talk about freedom of expression’ Let @twitter @TwitterIndia first restore the account of Kangana Ranaut first.
Then we will think about having a tho… https://t.
co/Lc78sI3uEV— Keh Ke Peheno (@coolfunnytshirt) 1622100026000’Stop playing victim card’ Stop meddling in the internal politics of India.
Also, stop hiding behind the garb of FOE and stop playing victim c… https://t.
co/4lAB1X56Dt— A_Verma (@A_Verma05187) 1622105434000’Twitter is not above law of the land’ You are not above the Law of the land!Our Constitution has Restrictions over FoE!! And you tok have to abide by i… https://t.
co/uNaJ8WBFoq— Valar Dohaeris (@ExSecular21) 1622114759000Funny parallels were drawn Twitter cares as much about FOE as much as Tony Kakkar cares about lyrics.
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co/kZuY1AB19E— Eishani // Sushi Stan (@ItsEishani) 1622114597000China is concerned about free trade.
WhatsApp is concerned about privacy.
Taliban is concerned about human rights.
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co/XqeZe0bsQi— Abhinav Prakash (@Abhina_Prakash) 1622111693000Giving back in the same coin ⓘ ???? ????? ?? ???????? https://t.
co/PTZr2hgR30— RiseOfBurnol?? (@RiseofBurnol) 1622115843000According to Twitter CEO,Identifying fake news peddlers on social media is an attack on Freedom of Expression!… https://t.
co/ehRstm0dLK— Preetam Rao (@Preetam_M_Rao) 1622104120000Hypocrisy Gentle reminder: Not a single liberal supporting Baba Ramdev’s freedom of expression.
— Lavi Rana (@LaviRana01) 1622053544000However, there were few who slammed the Modi government for intimidating Twitter.
Why are we being shamed internationally? Because a set of screenshots of which there’s no evidence of authenticity,… https://t.
co/mXCWP9wVHo— Pratik Sinha (@free_thinker) 1622115147000Govt overplayed its hand.
The raid was completely unnecessary.
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co/JvysIi8rje— Aditya Menon (@AdityaMenon22) 1622105420000
Faceoff: Twitter expresses worry over Risk to Liberty of expression India, draws flak
