Twitter – Jack Dorsey – Rajeev Chandrasekhar : These days Twitter is constantly in the news for one reason or another. Sometimes to raise money for BlueTick and sometimes to fines imposed for its wrong rules. This time the company has been fined 50 lakh rupees. Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said Twitter’s decision to challenge a government notice in court to block certain accounts was “part of a fiction” pushed by the company’s former CEO Jack Dorsey.
This is claimed by the former CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey
Jack Dorsey, who resigned as Twitter CEO, recently claimed that the Indian government was under “pressure” by threatening to shut down the company and raid employees if it did not comply with requests to remove various posts and ban accounts. The posts and accounts that were pressured to be removed were related to farmers’ protests against the Farm Bill in 2020 and 2021 and criticism of the government.
All forums must comply with Indian law
Reacting to the Karnataka High Court order dismissing Twitter’s appeal, the minister said the order clearly states that there is no option but to disobey a government order and all platforms, big or small, have to follow Indian laws. You know that in this particular case they (Twitter) were given a lot of instructions under the law, which they did not follow and then when the legal notice was sent to him, he decided to go to court, he told PTI on the sidelines of an event at the Broadband India Forum. This was part of the fictional story that Dorsey presented.
Twitter fined 50 lakh rupees
The Karnataka High Court dismissed a petition filed by Twitter last year, in which the social media firm challenged a notice by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. A single bench of Justice Krishna S Dixit imposed a fine of Rs 50 lakh on Twitter in this regard and directed it to be paid by the Karnataka State Legal Services Authority within 45 days, PTI reported.
