{"id":279699,"date":"2021-06-21T13:15:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T10:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/twitter-geoblocks-tweets-in-india-over-violent-video-circulation\/"},"modified":"2021-06-21T13:15:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T10:15:20","slug":"twitter-geoblocks-tweets-in-india-over-violent-video-circulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/twitter-geoblocks-tweets-in-india-over-violent-video-circulation\/","title":{"rendered":"#Twitter geoblocks tweets in India over violent video circulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Twitter<\/a> geoblocks tweets in India over violent video circulation<\/strong>”
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Twitter has restricted 50 tweets in India related to a viral video of an elderly Muslim man being assaulted in the town of Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. This action comes after cops sent a notice to summon Twitter India\u2019s chief last week to give a statement.<\/p>\n

The Ghaziabad police force had filed a complaint against\u00a0Twitter, journalists Mohammed\u00a0Zubair and Rana Ayyub, and online media entity The Wire, for allegedly creating communal tension through tweets.<\/span>\u00a0Those tweets had a video of an elderly Muslim man being assaulted in the city.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Twitter said that it has complied with a legal request and referred to its content restriction policy:<\/p>\n

As explained in our<\/span>Country Withheld Policy<\/span><\/a>, it may be necessary to withhold access to certain content in response to a valid legal demand or when the content has been found to violate local law(s). The withholdings are limited to the specific jurisdiction\/country where the content is<\/span> determined to be illegal. We notify the account holder directly so they\u2019re aware that we\u2019ve received a legal order pertaining to the account by<\/span> sending a message to the email address associated with the account(s), if available<\/span>. <\/span>\u00a0The legal requests that we receive are detailed in the bianual<\/span>Twitter Transparency Report<\/span><\/a>, and requests to withhold content are published on<\/span>Lumen<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

India\u2019s\u00a0IT Minister, RS Prasad, criticized Twitter last for failing to comply with\u00a0<\/span>India\u2019s new social media policing rules on time<\/a>\u00a0and not taking any action on tweets related to the UP incident.<\/p>\n

Twitter has been in a constant battle with the government for a while, especially when it comes to restricting\u00a0tweets\u00a0and app<\/a>lying misinformation labels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n