Twitter deletes 'criticism tweets against the government's measures against corona' at the request of the government



On April 24, 2021, it was revealed that Twitter had deleted some tweets criticizing the Indian government's countermeasures against the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) at the request of the Indian government.

Twitter censors tweets from MP, MLA, editor criticising pandemic handling

https://www.medianama.com/2021/04/223-twitter-mp-minister-censor/

India asks Twitter to take down tweets critical of COVID handling | Censorship News | Al Jazeera
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Oxygen shortage | Seize property of those spreading rumors: Yogi Adityanath --The Hindu
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/seize-property-of-those-spreading-rumours-up-cm/article34404518.ece

On April 22nd and April 23rd, the Government of India made a legal request to Twitter to remove tweets criticizing the government's measures against corona. In addition to the general user of the tweet became a target, 'the medical field has collapsed in,' he said lawmakers discussed Tweets and is the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi to criticize directly the Mr. All India Trinamool Congress members of tweets , many people bathing without a mask (bathing) to introduced the manner in which Indian national Congress members of tweets , journalist shot a video of the cremation site tweets such as, is a total of 52. Twitter censored tweets upon request, and 12 out of 52 were deleted at the time of writing the article.

For the list of targeted tweets, access the page dated April 22 and the page dated April 23 of the website 'Lumen ' that posts the copyright infringement application, and use the access token to the corresponding PDF file. You can check it by getting it.

In response to a local media inquiry from MEDIANAMA , a Twitter spokeswoman said, 'If Twitter receives a valid legal request, it will review it based on both Twitter rules and local law and violate Twitter rules. In that case, you can delete the tweet, and if it violates local law, you can restrict access from that country. In either case, we will notify the poster. ' The Information Technology Law enacted in 2000 in India gives the state the authority to block access to information in order to protect 'India's sovereignty and integrity' and maintain public order. I will.

In India, the spread of COVID-19 spread peaked in the fall of 2020, and although it has been shrinking once, signs of spread have been seen again from around March 2021, and the number of infected people per day has reached a maximum of 310,000. There is a serious pandemic such as exceeding.

Mortality rate rises by 20% after 1 million COVID-19 infected people are reported in India in 4 days-GIGAZINE



In addition, Yogi Adityanath, the head of the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, received mixed information that he was 'insufficient in oxygen' despite the fact that the hospital was supplied with sufficient oxygen. , 'Based on the National Security Law, we have established a policy of confiscating the property of the person who spread false information on SNS.'



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