Twitter No Longer Enjoys Liability Protection in India

Afterward the Indian government established New It Rules 2021 earlier this yr, Twitter has been facing some serious legal problems in the state. We saw a report last month stating that the social media behemothic is to lose its condition as an intermediary platform in India. Now, as per a court filing, Twitter has lost liability protection confronting user-generated content in India.

For the uninitiated, social media platforms and net services in India enjoy something chosen "safe harbor" protection. It substantially prevents the Indian authorities to concur an internet service or a social media platform responsible for any illegal activeness or hate voice communication past whatever of its users. This protection is enjoyed by companies such as Google, Facebook, and WhatsApp.

Twitter, unfortunately, will non be able to take advantage of the "safety harbor" protection anymore every bit the company did non comply with the New IT Rules in India. The said guidelines require any social media company (with over 5 million users) to appoint a chief compliant officer, a resident grievance officer, and a nodal contact executive to address user bug on the platforms.

While companies like WhatsApp, Facebook, and Google have partially or fully complied with the new guidelines past appointing necessary executives, Twitter has not complied with whatsoever of the requirements. Moreover, the American social media giant has faced major criticisms over "manipulated media" tweets that escalated the situation betwixt the government and Twitter.

"All social media platforms are welcome to practise business in Bharat. They can criticize Ravi Shankar Prasad, my Prime Minister, or anyone. The upshot is of misuse of social media. Some of them say nosotros are jump past American laws. Y'all operate in India, brand practiced money, but you lot will take the position that you lot'll be governed by American laws. This is plainly not acceptable," said India's Information technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in a briefing.