'Outright Lie': India Denies Threatening To Shut Down Twitter
Date
6/14/2023 3:40:21 PM
(MENAFN- Khaama Press) India threatened to shut twitter down unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts, co-founder Jack Dorsey said, an accusation the Indian government dismissed as an“outright lie”.
Dorsey, who left his position as CEO of Twitter in 2021, claimed on Monday that India had threatened to shut down the firm and conduct employee raids if it did not accede to government orders to delete postings and block accounts that were critical of the government in response to farmer demonstrations in 2020 and 2021.
“It manifested in ways such as: 'We will shut Twitter down in India', which is a huge market for us; 'we will raid the homes of your employees', which they did; And this is India, a democratic country,” Dorsey said in an interview with YouTube news show Breaking Points.
According to Reuters, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has frequently denied using web censorship and stated on Tuesday that Dorsey's claims were an“outright lie.”
“No one went to jail, nor was Twitter shut down. Dorsey's Twitter regime had a problem accepting the sovereignty of Indian law,” Deputy Minister for Information Technology Rajeev Chandrashekhar said in a post on Twitter.
“India is a country that had many requests of us around the farmers' protest, around particular journalists that were critical of the government,” Dorsey said.
The Indian government claims that its primary goal is to halt the spread of false information and posts that endanger public safety.
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