Parliament Strict On Twitter
- 30-Jun-2021
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A parliamentary panel has sought response from Twitter on the recent locking of the accounts of Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information and Technology has sent a letter to Twitter seeking its response within two days. .
The panel was instructed by its chairman Tharoor to seek reply from Twitter on the blocking of accounts of Prasad and others on its platform.
Last week, Twitter had blocked Union Information and Technology Minister Prasad from accessing his account which ratcheted up tensions with the government as it came under renewed attack for not following local laws.
Twitter denied Prasad access to his account for almost an hour on the grounds that he violated the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but the minister said the microblogging platform violated new IT rules that require intermediary or a host of user content to give prior notice before locking access.
