India to Twitter: Comply with IT rules or face ‘unintended consequences’
By Sankalp Phartiyal
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has instructed Twitter Inc it has one ultimate chance to comply with new IT rules, or face “unintended penalties” in accordance to a replica of an official letter seen by Reuters.
The new rules – which have been launched in February and which grew to develop into environment friendly on the end of ultimate month – are geared towards regulating content material materials on social media and making corporations equal to Facebook, its WhatsApp messenger and Twitter further accountable to licensed requests.
They moreover require big social media companies to organize grievance redressal mechanisms and appoint new executives to coordinate with regulation enforcement.
India’s experience ministry wrote to Twitter on May 26 and May 28 on the model new rules, nevertheless the agency’s responses “neither deal with the clarifications sought by …
