Twitter is biased, listens to what government says: Rahul Gandhi

NEW DELHI: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused Twitter of “interfering” in India’s political process and making it the company’s business “to define our politics”.
Rahul’s comments came a week after Twitter locked his account as well as those of many Congress functionaries and party units after they purportedly violated Twitter rules by sharing a picture of a Dalit family whose minor daughter had allegedly been raped and murdered.
“This is an attack on the democratic structure of the country, this is not an attack on Rahul Gandhi. This is not, you know, simply shutting Rahul Gandhi down. I have 19-20 million followers. You are denying them the right to an opinion,” Rahul said in a video message that was widely shared by Congress on its social media platforms. Rahul also said Twitter’s move to lock his account was not only “patently unfair”, but also “breaching the idea that Twitter is a neutral platform”.
“…For the investors, this is a very dangerous thing because taking sides in the (sic) political contest has repercussions for Twitter.… It’s obvious now that Twitter is actually not a neutral, objective platform. It is a biased platform. It’s something that listens to what the government of the day says,” he said.
The brief video message saw Rahul ask whether companies must be allowed to “define politics” only because they are “beholden” to the government. Along with the video statement, he issued an Instagram post that read “Digital Dadagiri nahi chalegi (digital strongarm tactics won’t work)”.
Later in the day, Congress fielded its spokespersons to question the Prime Minister’s “silence” on the alleged rape. They also claimed that Rahul did not violate any Twitter policy.