Will Twitter comply with the new IT laws enacted by the central government? This is the frequently-asked question one hears wherever they go.
Going by the behaviour pattern of Twitter, it looks like it is not in a mood to comply. It had three months to comply, but it didn’t.
Meanwhile, some petitioners have filed a plea against Twitter for publishing defamatory, untrue and false tweets, in Delhi High Court last week.
And, this is the kind of stalemate whih Twitter craves for, that is buying time and simultaneously pushing its agenda.
Its agenda is to create civil strife in India by creating a wedge between conflicting ideologies by siding with one of them. It helps Twitter to increase its influence on the social lives of the people.
Remember, it played a crucial role by backing the protestors to create a civilian strife in Tunisia, Egypt and Syria, which resulted in the Arab Spring revolution in 2011. It also played a role in the Republic Day violence perpetrated by the fake farmers protests in Delhi. It also had backed anti-CAA protests that resulted in Delhi riots, in which hundreds of people died.
Of late, Twitter has openly interfered in the political matters of the countries, beginning with the suspension of the US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account in the runup to US Presidential elections this year.
In India, it openly sided with the Congress party in the toolkit case. Twitter has a political agenda. Yes.
In fact, it is an arm of the US Deep State to run its political propaganda. And, it would do anything for it, even if it means to defy Indian laws. So, what options are left with the Indian government?
In the long run, the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi can limit its content on Twitter and other social media platforms. It can then look to bring in stringent laws as enacted by Germany and other European countries. The present Indian IT laws are toothless and will only encourage Twitter to take them easy.
Therefore, the government should take immediate action of suspending operations of Twitter as Syria, Iran, China, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia do, whenever required.
The government should not bother about Twitter’s rants about freedom of expression, because it is guilty of violating it, time and again. It blocks or suspends those who are not in alignment with its Leftist ideology.
If the government does not punish Twitter, it will lose control over the companies, both foreign and domestic.
Optimists can only hope that it punishes the microblogging site just as it did to the American Express and Diners Club in April, as also to the Chinese apps during the Galwan valley clash.