If it were China , it would have hit Twitter before it knew what had hit it.Social Media must be socially responsible.
Freedom of Expressiondoes mean irresponsibility.
Government should come down heavily on Twitter.
If need be, India can be without Twitter.
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Twitter might face legal action if the popular microblogging site does not comply with Indian government‘s demand to censor objectionable content posted by its users.
Stung by the misinformation campaign thatspread like wildfire through SMS, Facebook,YouTube and Twitter in past weeks, the Indian government now seems to be moving ahead with its initial threat to tighten the noose around social media.
Indicating this, a senior government official has said that Twitter has already been told that legal action may be taken against it as it had failed to cooperate with the Indian government in its efforts to find the source of and curtail the inflammatory messages against north-east citizens.
Other websites, such as Facebook and YouTube have confirmed to the Indian government that the hate content against the people from north-eastern India had originated fromPakistan. However, they have said they cannot take direct action against such sites. But since both Google (parent of YouTube) and Facebook have offices in India, it will be easier for the government sleuths to work with them.
However, India has reportedly faced a tardy response from Twitter, partly because the company doesn’t have presence in India. The response from the US company to block ‘objectionable content’ is reported to be ‘poor’.
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