Ministry of Electronics and IT (MEITY) directed Twitter to block around 250 Tweets/Twitter accounts which were using #ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide hashtag & making fake, intimidatory & provocative Tweets on Jan 30.
India’s Information and Technology ministry directs twitter to block 250 tweets/Twitter accounts under section 69A of IT act over provocative and intimidatory tweets on Saturday.
This was done on the request of the Ministry of Home Affairs and law enforcement agencies to prevent any escalation of law and order given the on-going farmer agitation.
Incitement to genocide is a grave threat to public order & therefore the Ministry of Electronics & IT ordered for blocking of these Twitter accounts & Tweets under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act. Twitter has blocked these Tweets/Twitter Accounts: Sources said to ANI
List of accounts other than Caravan, Imac etc acted upon by GOI https://t.co/qCbgKqx6ln pic.twitter.com/tir3Znaong
— FrontalForce (@FrontalForce) February 1, 2021
Breaking: India's IT ministry directs twitter to block 250 tweets/Twitter accounts under section 69A of IT act over provocative and intimidatory tweets on Saturday.
— Sidhant Sibal (@sidhant) February 1, 2021
Good job by IT Ministry. Provocative trends and fake news should never be spared. https://t.co/XooXMEeDZL
— Haritha Varanasi (@vharitha17) February 1, 2021
Mean while, Twitter Statement on the new development of withholding many Twitter Accounts in India.
Says, ‘if we receive a properly scoped request from an authorised entity, it may be necessary to withhold access to certain content in a particular country from time to time’. – @TwitterIndia
