![]() “No matter what any platform does they will have to abide by the new IT Rules fully and there shall be no compromise on that,” he concluded. “Twitter’s actions indicate that they are not the harbinger of free speech that they claim to be but are only interested in running their own agenda, with the threat that if you do not tow the line they draw, they will arbitrarily remove you from their platform. ![]() “Furthermore, in the past several years, no television channel or any anchor has made any complaints about copyright infringements with regard to these news clips of my interviews shared on social media,” continued the minister. The mentioned rules were published in late February and encompass all manner of requirements for social-media platforms the specific section at hand relays that suspended persons should receive “an adequate and reasonable opportunity to dispute the action being taken,” among other things. “Twitter’s actions were in gross violation of Rule 4(8) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 where they failed to provide me any prior notice before denying me access to my own account,” he wrote. The communications minister also attached screenshots of the messages that Twitter sent him, the first of which states at the outset that “your account has been locked.” From there, this initial message proceeds to detail the nuances of DMCA takedown requests and Twitter’s response to allegedly infringing content, before prompting the recipient to “unlock” his account by reviewing “Twitter’s Copyright Policy.” ![]() According to the 66-year-old Lok Sabha (House of the People) MP, the “highly peculiar” occurrence saw Twitter lock him out “for almost an hour on the alleged ground that there was a violation” of the DMCA. Twitter temporarily removed India’s minister of communications, Ravi Shankar Prasad, following a DMCA takedown request from Sony Music – prompting pushback both from the government official and the music industry, given that the social-media platform has yet to license music.Ĭommunications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad – who also serves as the Indian government’s minister of electronics and information technology and minister of law and justice – recently detailed his (temporary) inability to access his Twitter account. ![]()
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