Microblogging web site Twitter on Friday blocked the official Twitter account of Union Regulation Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for 1 hour.
Twitter stated it took this motion for violation of American legislation.
The minister shared screenshots on his official deal with after it was unblocked.
“Mates! One thing extremely peculiar occurred right now. Twitter denied entry to my account for nearly an hour on the alleged floor that there was a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the USA and subsequently they allowed me to entry the account,” he tweeted.
Mates! One thing extremely peculiar occurred right now. Twitter denied entry to my account for nearly an hour on the alleged floor that there was a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the USA and subsequently they allowed me to entry the account. pic.twitter.com/WspPmor9Su
— Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) June 25, 2021
“Twitter’s actions point out that they don’t seem to be the harbinger of free speech that they declare to be however are solely occupied with working their very own agenda, with the menace that if you don’t tow the road they draw, they’ll arbitrarily take away you from their platform,” he wrote in one other tweet.
The message within the screenshot shared by Prasad reads that the account has been locked by Twitter as a consequence of DMCA discover. “Your account has been locked as a result of Twitter acquired a compliant Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) Discover for content material posted to your Twitter account. Underneath the DMCA, copyright house owners can notify Twitter claiming {that a} person has infringed their copyrighted works. Upon receipt of a legitimate DMCA discover, Twitter will take away the recognized materials,” the message learn.
Twitter and the Centre have been at crossroads after the previous did not adjust to the federal government’s new IT coverage.
It might be recalled that lately, Twitter had eliminated the blue tick from the accounts of a number of leaders together with Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu, and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, after which, an argument broke out throughout the nation. Twitter corrected it shortly after calling it a technical mistake.