SunstarTV Bureau: Executives from Twitter had faced questions on why Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s Twitter account was blocked in November, on Thursday.
The main motive of the meeting with Facebook and Twitter included safeguarding citizens’ rights, preventing misuse of social news media platforms and women security in the digital space
But sources said Twitter executives were questioned why Mr Shah’s Twitter account was blocked and who gave them the right to do so, for which the Twitter officials explained that they had to block the account temporarily as there was a copyright issue regarding a picture posted.
When Mr Shah’s account was blocked, Twitter had explained it as an ‘inadvertent error’ under its copyright policies. Even a spokesperson of the microblogging site had said, “This decision was reversed immediately and the account is fully functional.”
In the backdrop of a huge controversy over hate speech and content being closely monitored and removed in the United States, some members questioned how social media platforms could remove content when there is no law against it in India.
Both Twitter and Facebook said they have strong rules regarding content and would remove content when necessary to ensure it does not incite violence.
