Ravi Shankar Prasad’s Twitter Handle Blocked for an Hour, Know Why?

Twitter blocked the handle of IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for an hour on Friday morning. The reason for this was stated that they violated America's Digital Millennium Copyright Act. However, Twitter later reopened the handle of Ravi Shankar Prasad, giving a warning.

Reacting to this, Ravi Shankar Prasad said, 'Friends! A very strange thing happened today. Twitter blocked my account for an hour. Prasad has shared this information first through indigenous microblogging and social networking site Koo and then through Twitter.

Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad spoke on 'Koo'

After the account was blocked on Twitter, Ravi Shankar Prasad wrote his talk on the social messaging app Koo. He wrote that…

• friends! A very strange incident happened today. Twitter blocked my account access for about an hour. It was told that there has been an alleged infringement of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of America. Later they gave me permission to access the account.
• Twitter's action is in violation of Rule 4(8) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. They didn't give me any notification before blocking access to my account.
• It is clear that my statements on Twitter's arbitrariness, especially sharing clips of my interviews on TV channels, have stunned Twitter.
• Now it is also clear why Twitter is refusing to follow the Intermediary Guidelines because if Twitter follows it, it will not be able to arbitrarily deny access to anyone's account and it is not according to their agenda.
• Also, no TV channel or anchor has complained about copyright infringement regarding my interview clip shared on social media in the last several years.
• Twitter's move indicates that they are not in favor of free speech, which they claim. They are only interested in running their agenda with the threat that if you don't follow their drawn line, they will arbitrarily remove you from their platform.
• No matter the platform, they have to fully comply with the new IT rules and there will be no compromise on the same.

There is a conflict between Twitter and the government over the new IT rules

This action of the social media company on the IT Minister has come to the fore at a time when there is a dispute between the central government and Twitter regarding the new IT rules. In this matter, representatives of Twitter were presented before the Parliamentary Committee attached to the IT Ministry last week. The committee asked the company officials whether you follow the law of the land?

On this, the representatives of Twitter said – We follow our policy, which is according to the law of the country. Objecting to this argument, the committee said in a stern tone to the company that the law of the country is the biggest in our country, not your policy.

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