Many Twitteries are expressing their concern over the union government for framing new guidelines for social media giants like Facebook and Twitter. But then, most of the netizens do not know how Twitter is dafaming India at international level in an organized manner. Twitter is working under the directions of the US new president Joe Biden, who developed hatred for Modi and India, due to jealousy. Meanwhile, Twitter India made a couple of allegations against the union government in light of the new guidelines framed for them. The centre, however, has come up with a fitting retort to every allegation of Twitter. Checkout the following.
* Protecting free speech in India is not the prerogative of only a private, for-profit foreign entity like Twitter but it is the commitment of the world's largest democracy and its robust institutions.
* Through its actions and deliberate defiance, Twitter seeks to undermine India's legal system and refuse to comply with those very regulations under which it is claiming protection from any criminal liability in India.
* If Twitter is so committed to Freedom of Speech then why does it not set up such a mechanism in India of its own. The purported commitment of Twitter thus not only sounds hollow but also completely self-serving.
* The only instance of scuttling free speech on Twitter is Twitter itself and its opaque policies, as a result of which people's accounts are suspended and tweets deleted arbitrarily without recourse.
* Twitter needs to stop beating around the bush and comply with the laws of the land. Twitter is just a social media platform and has no locus in dictating what should India's legal framework be.
* Twitter has claimed that it is committed to the people of India which has been most invisible in recent times. For example it showed parts of Ladakh as Chinese territory and rectified it only after repeated reminders. Twitter refused to take prompt action to block content which spread a fake genocide plan in the aftermath of the 26 January Red Fort violence. Twitter took no action against fake narratives like labelling B.1.617 Coronavirus mutant as Indian variant despite strict WHO guidelines.
* It is high time that Twitter disabuses itself of this grandiosity and comply with the laws of India.