Twitter Gets Time Till July 4 To Comply With All Orders Of IT Ministry: Report

Twitter submitted a list of over 80 Twitter accounts and tweets that it has blocked based on a request from the government in 2021

The Ministry of Electronics and IT has set a deadline of July 4, failing which Twitter may lose intermediary status, which means it will be liable for all the comments posted on its platform.

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The central government has issued a notice to microblogging platform Twitter to comply with all its past orders by July 4, citing sources, the PTI reported on Wednesday.

According to the report, the Ministry of Electronics and IT has set a deadline of July 4, failing which Twitter may lose intermediary status, which means it will be liable for all the comments posted on its platform.

A government source said, “A notice was issued on June 27 to Twitter to comply with all government orders issued till date. Twitter was issued notices earlier this month but it did not comply with it. This is the final notice.”

Email query sent to Twitter by the PTI, however, elicited no immediate response. It has been seen that Twitter has been at loggerheads with the Centre on several occasions.

The microblogging site submitted a list of over 80 Twitter accounts and tweets that it has blocked based on a request from the government in 2021.

The request from the government was to block multiple accounts and some tweets from international advocacy group Freedom House, journalists, politicians, and supporters of the farmers’ protest.

The government source, however, said that there are several other orders, with which Twitter is yet to comply and they have been given a final deadline of July 4 for compliance.

Meanwhile, Twitter India on Monday banned several official accounts of Pakistan Embassies in UN, Turkey, Iran, and Egypt.  

“Account has been withheld in India in response to a legal demand,” reads the error message displayed while opening these accounts.

Earlier, Twitter had withheld the account of the national public broadcaster in Pakistan – Radio Pakistan. After India blocked these official Twitter accounts, the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged Twitter to restore these accounts with immediate access.