The Karnataka Excessive Court docket has imposed a effective of a effective of Rs 50 lakhs on Twitter within the case whereby it challenged the federal government’s orders within the nation.
Twitter vs Indian authorities case took a contemporary flip as we speak when the Karnataka Excessive Court docket dismissed the social media big’s plea difficult the federal government’s orders to dam tweets and accounts within the nation. Moreover, the Excessive Court docket imposed a effective of Rs 50 lakhs on the corporate.
In response to a report by Reuters, the Karnataka Excessive Court docket dominated that Twitter was served notices, to which it didn’t comply. “So you haven’t given any cause why you delayed compliance, greater than a 12 months of delay… then abruptly you comply and strategy the courtroom,” the bench mentioned through the verdict, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar wrote in a tweet.
“You aren’t a farmer however a billon greenback firm,” he added.
“All platforms need to be in compliance with the Indian legislation and Twitter beneath Jack Dorsey repeatedly refused to take action,” the Minister wrote within the tweet.
All platforms hv to be in compliance with Indian legislation n @Twitter beneath @jack repeatedly refused to take action. In response to @GoI_MeitY ‘s discover for non-compliance they approached Karnataka Excessive Court docket n judgement 👇🏻
✅Karnataka Excessive Court docket has dismissed the petition filed by…
— Rajeev Chandrasekhar 🇮🇳 (@Rajeev_GoI) June 30, 2023
It’s price noting that earlier this month, the Union Minister shared a wordy publish on Twitter whereby he referred to as out the “fiction” put out by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, in a YouTube podcast just lately claimed that the Centre had threatened to close down the platform within the nation.
“That is an outright lie by @jack — maybe an try to brush out that very doubtful interval of Twitter’s historical past. Twitter beneath Dorsey and his workforce have been in repeated and steady violations of the India legislation,” Chandrasekhar had mentioned in a tweet on the time.
That is an outright lie by @jack – maybe an try to brush out that very doubtful interval of twitters historical past
Details and fact@twitter undr Dorsey n his workforce have been in repeated n steady violations of India legislation. As a matter of reality they have been in non-compliance with legislation… https://t.co/SlzmTcS3Fa
— Rajeev Chandrasekhar 🇮🇳 (@Rajeev_GoI) June 13, 2023
The Minister additionally mentioned that as a matter of reality, Twitter was in non-compliance with legislation repeatedly from 2020 to 2022 “and it was solely June 2022 after they lastly complied”.
“All social media intermediaries working in India need to adjust to legal guidelines to make sure that the web is secure, trusted and accountable,” he added.
— With company inputs
