“Tricky Motion If Social Media Misused”: Ravi Shankar Prasad Amid Twitter Row
You’ll do industry in India however should practice the charter, the minister informed social media platforms.
New Delhi:
Amid an intense face-off with microblogging platform Twitter, Union Minister for Electronics and Knowledge Era, Ravi Shankar Prasad, nowadays informed Parliament that strict motion might be taken if social media is misused to unfold faux information and gas violence.
Particularly naming Twitter, Fb, YouTube, and LinkedIn within the Rajya Sabha, the Union Minister mentioned “you’ve got thousands and thousands of fans in India, you’re unfastened to do industry and make cash, however you’ll have to practice the Indian charter”. He was once talking all the way through Query Hour at the misuse of social media platforms.
“We recognize social media so much, it has empowered commonplace other folks. Social media has a large position in Virtual India programme. Then again, if social media is misused to unfold faux information, violence then motion might be taken,” Mr Prasad mentioned.
The Centre and Twitter have engaged in some sharp exchanges during the last few day over the problem of unfastened speech and its criminal limits within the nation. Following the Republic Day violence, the federal government had requested Twitter to dam over 1,300 handles in considering allegedly spreading incorrect information and provocative content material. Those integrated accounts of newshounds, activists, and politicians. A few of these individuals now face police circumstances for the alleged crime.
Refusing the federal government, Twitter mentioned those calls for were inconsistent with Indian law. It, alternatively, imposed restrictions on one of the accounts, despite the fact that handiest inside of India.
The ruling BJP’s leaders have, in the meantime, attacked the platform for allegedly refusing to abide through Indian regulations.
