Centre, Twitter India get SC notice on plea seeking mechanism to regulate content spreading hate
A 3-judge bench led by Chief Justice SA Bobde issued the notices on a petition filed by BJP’s Vinit Goenka saying lots of of faux Twitter handles and bogus Facebook accounts within the identify of eminent individuals have been used to mislead individuals.
The notices come within the midst of a row between the federal government and Twitter over the latter’s refusal to clamp down on sure handles “with Khalistani and Pakistani links ” which have been used to submit content on the protests towards the brand new farm legal guidelines.
Twitter has cited freedom of speech guidelines to keep away from clamping down on handles of journalists, politicians and activists although it has blocked most of the handles it was requested to block. The authorities of India has been sad with the restricted compliance of its order.
More than 10 per cent of the 35 million twitter handles and 350 million Facebook accounts in India have been pretend, the plea mentioned, alleging they have been used to peddle “hate speech and pretend information” and trigger social unrest and riots together with the current one in Delhi.
There needs to be a legislation underneath which motion might be initiated towards Twitter and its representatives in India for abetting such content, it mentioned.
The plea filed via advocate Ashwini Dubey additionally sought that Twitter share its logic and algorithms with the Indian authorities for screening “anti-India tweets” and that each one social media handles be made traceable,
It additionally accused Twitter India of allegedly selling pro-terrorist views, a cost the US-based social media big has denied. Twitter had earlier moved the highest courtroom towards the a number of FIRs filed towards it throughout the nation, demanding they be consolidated for a joint probe.
