India threatened to shut down Twitter in the country unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts critical of the handling of farmer protests, its co-founder Jack Dorsey said, a charge Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government called a ‘lie’
Government says always acts in interests of user safetyNEW DELHI/WASHINGTON June 13 - India threatened to shut down Twitter in the country unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts critical of the handling of farmer protests, its co-founder Jack Dorsey said, a charge Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government called a "lie".
India's Deputy Minister for Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a top ranking official in Modi's government, called Dorsey's assertions an"No one went to jail nor was Twitter 'shut down'. Dorsey's Twitter regime had a problem accepting the sovereignty of Indian law," Chandrasekhar said in a post on Twitter. He did not elaborate further.
The former Twitter CEO's comments drew widespread attention in the Indian media and among politicians, as it is unusual for global business leaders or firms to publicly criticise Modi's government. Modi's government eventually gave in and repealed the laws, which the protesters said were anti-farmer. It has maintained it ordered content take downs at the time to deter the spread of misinformation.
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