Twitter is just a social media platform and it has no right to dictate what should be India's Law

Twitter is just a social media platform and it has no right to dictate what should be India's Law The Government strongly controverts the claims made by Twitter today in its press release. India has a glorious tradition of free speech and democratic practices dating back centuries. Protecting free speech in India is not the prerogative of only a private for-profit, a foreign entity like Twitter. but it is the commitment of the world's largest democracy and its robust institutions. Twitter's statement is an attempt to dictate its terms to the wortd·s largest democracy. Through its actions and deliberate: defiance, Twitter seeks to undermine India's legal system. Furthermore, Twitter refuses to comply with those very regulations in the Intermediary Guidelines on the basis of which it is calming safe harbor protection from any criminal liability in India. The larger question is if Twitter is so committed then why it did not set up such a mechanism in India on its own? Twitter representatives in India routinely claim that they have no authority and that they and the people of India need to escalate everything to the Twitter headquarters in the USA. The purported commitment of Twitter to its Indian user base, thus not only sounds hollow but completely sett-serving. Twitter has a large user base in India, it earns significant revenue from its Indian operations but is also the most reluctant to appoint an India-based grievance redressal officer and mechanism chief compliance officer and nodal officer to whom its own users can complain when they are subjected to offensive Tweets. The Rules empower the ordinary users who become victims of defamation, morphed images. sexual abuse and the whole range of other abusive content In blatant violation of law to seek redress. Click on below mentioned Link to Read Full Press Release