APIn what could further escalate tensions between the government of India and micro-blogging platform Twitter, the platform’s website shows Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh as separate countries and not part of India.
“This is the second time Twitter has shown the wrong map of India. Earlier Twitter had shown Leh as part of China,” said a government official adding that action on the issue is being contemplated.
In November last year, the government had issued a stern notice to Twitter for showing Leh as part of Jammu and Kashmir, instead of the Union Territory of Ladakh.
According to the notice, which was sent by the Ministry of Electronics and IT on November 9 to the global vice president of Twitter, depicting Leh as part of J&K is a “deliberate attempt by Twitter to undermine the will of the sovereign Parliament of India which had declared Ladakh as a Union Territory of India with its headquarter in Leh.
“No notice has been sent so far but we are contemplating future action,” said the official. Twitter did not respond to ET queries till press time.
Just last week, Twitter briefly “locked” Indian IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad's account on Friday citing US copyright infringement laws and warned him of potential suspension from the platform if he posted copyrighted videos on his handle.
ET reported on Monday that the music federation which made the complaint said that “unlike other social media platforms, including Facebook and YouTube”, Twitter has not taken a “license for music content.” It also said that to avoid such situations in the future, Twitter should take a licence for the content uploaded onto its platform which will allow users to upload content and make sure that “Indian songwriters, artists and producers are being fairly rewarded."
Things between Twitter and the government of India have already come to a boil after a series of disagreements between the two sides over the past several weeks. In what started as a tiff over Twitter tagging tweets by BJP leaders as manipulated media blew to a big controversy as the government accused Twitter of being non-compliant with the new Intermediary Guidelines and therefore losing its safe harbour as an intermediary. The company has seen FIRs filed against itself over content on its platforms and its officers being summoned for investigations.
“This is the second time Twitter has shown the wrong map of India. Earlier Twitter had shown Leh as part of China,” said a government official adding that action on the issue is being contemplated.
In November last year, the government had issued a stern notice to Twitter for showing Leh as part of Jammu and Kashmir, instead of the Union Territory of Ladakh.
According to the notice, which was sent by the Ministry of Electronics and IT on November 9 to the global vice president of Twitter, depicting Leh as part of J&K is a “deliberate attempt by Twitter to undermine the will of the sovereign Parliament of India which had declared Ladakh as a Union Territory of India with its headquarter in Leh.
“No notice has been sent so far but we are contemplating future action,” said the official. Twitter did not respond to ET queries till press time.
Just last week, Twitter briefly “locked” Indian IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad's account on Friday citing US copyright infringement laws and warned him of potential suspension from the platform if he posted copyrighted videos on his handle.
ET reported on Monday that the music federation which made the complaint said that “unlike other social media platforms, including Facebook and YouTube”, Twitter has not taken a “license for music content.” It also said that to avoid such situations in the future, Twitter should take a licence for the content uploaded onto its platform which will allow users to upload content and make sure that “Indian songwriters, artists and producers are being fairly rewarded."
Things between Twitter and the government of India have already come to a boil after a series of disagreements between the two sides over the past several weeks. In what started as a tiff over Twitter tagging tweets by BJP leaders as manipulated media blew to a big controversy as the government accused Twitter of being non-compliant with the new Intermediary Guidelines and therefore losing its safe harbour as an intermediary. The company has seen FIRs filed against itself over content on its platforms and its officers being summoned for investigations.