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'Raviji, Same Thing Just Happened To Me': Tharoor On Twitter Locking Him Out As Well After IT Minister

Taking on the micro-blogging platform, Shashi Tharoor said “locking is a foolish response to a DCMA notice”.

Soon after IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad claimed that Twitter denied access to his account for close to an hour on the alleged ground that there was a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday said that he was also ‘locked out.'

Taking on the micro-blogging platform, the former union minister said “locking is a foolish response to a DCMA notice”.

“And @Twitter locked me out again because to explain the problem, the first tweet in this thread included the offending copyrighted video. Locking is a foolish response to a DCMA notice; disabling the video (which they've now done) should be enough. @Twitter has a lot to learn,” he tweeted.

“Raviji, the same thing just happened to me. Clearly, DMCA is getting hyperactive. This tweet has been deleted by @Twitter because its video includes the copyrighted BoneyM song"Rasputin": https://twitter.com/ShashiTharoor/status/1380746375567003649 #DanceIsNotJihad After the process, a/c unlocked,” he said in another post.

Tharoor further said that they would be seeking an explanation from Twitter for locking his account as well as that of Prasad.

“As Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, I can state that we will be seeking an explanation from @TwitterIndia for the locking of @rsprasad's & my accounts & the rules & procedures they follow while operating in India,” he posted.

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