J&K, Ladakh Outside India Map On Twitter Website, Action Likely: Sources

New Delhi: Twitter can deal with government action for bringing a bad map from India, which shows Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as a separate country.
The map that appears on Twitter’s “Tweep Life” section shows Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, outside India. The deformed card has been reported by a Twitter user and has generated many angry reactions.

Sources say the government can take difficult measures.

This is the last controversy in ongoing interlocking between the government and Twitter over a range of BJP leaders’ position marking problems as “handled media” to new social media rules.

Twitter had reported concerns “freedom of expression” while meeting the new rules, including name India-based compliance officers.

As it was slow to respond to government warnings to comply with the rules, there were Twitter issues losing legal protection against user-generated content.

On May 31, Twitter told Delhi’s High Court that she appointed Dharmendra Chatur, a partner of a TWITTER law firm as a provisional grievance adjustment agent. However, the government stated that it could not accept the appointment of foreigners at statutory positions.

Yesterday, Dharmendra Chatur Asit, weeks after his appointment. Twitter has now appointed its US Global Legal Policy Manager Jeremy Kessel as India Grievance Officer. The new rules, however, require an Indian resident for the role.

In a series of Run-ins with Twitter, the government also asked the site to remove the “handled media” tab of tweets posted by several BJP leaders on an alleged congress “Toolkit”.

As Twitter refused to do so, Delhi’s police also served advice, also visited his offices in Delhi and Gurgaon, and interviewed Twitter India Chef Manish Maheshwari in Bengaluru.

Recently, the police of the Uttar Pradesh of BJP-directed convened Mr. Maheshwari for failing to stop the spread of a video that would have targeted incentive to religious discord.

Friday, the Minister of the Union IT The Twitter account of Ravi Shankar Prasad has been briefly locked, allegedly on copyright violations. The minister reported having refused access to his account for more than one hour on complaints that he violated the copyright law by publishing clips from his television debates.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *