After the clamp down of Delhi Police on its office in Congress ToolKit row, Twitter at last has blinked.
It said it will strive to comply with the new IT laws.
According to these new laws, significant intermediaries are required to have appointed a local officers for compliance, liaison and grievance handling, break end-to-end encryption after due legal deiligence to check crime and criminals and use AI to monitor objectionable terms
The intermediary platforms were supposed to have complied with the new IT rules on or before May 25, but they did not.
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Despite agreeing to comply with the new law, Twitter still has the arrogance of expressing concerns over the potential threat to freedom of expression and intimidation tactics by the police.
Whose freedom of expression are you worried about, Twitter? Those who promote violence? Like Ayatollah Khomeini and AAP leader Amanatullah Khan severing the head of a Hindu priest?
Twitter, you are not worried about the freedom of expression of those who are not in alignment with the leftist orientation of the company.
And as far as your remarks of “intimidation tactics by the police” is concerned, the officers were doing their duty. They were actually helping your darling party which had filed a complaint against BJP leader Sambit Patra. Why Twitter, you do not want justice for your darling party?
The police had visited the office to issue a notice seeking the parameter on which the company came to the conclusion that Sambit Patra’s tweet was tagged as manipulated media? It wasn’t a raid as reported by your darling reporters.
Anyway, kudos should go to the Delhi Police, with the blessings of Home Minister Amit Shah, to crack down on Twitter, which forced them to comply with the law, instead of moving the court.
It is a safe move, otherwise a law violator will not stand a chance to win a verdict in its favour from the law keepers.