Twitter Withholds Filmmaker Leena Manimekalai’s July 2 Kaali Tweet

Microblogging web site Twitter has eliminated the controversial July 2 tweet of filmmaker Leena Manimekalai.

Manimekalai had launched the poster of the movie Kaali through a tweet which led to outrage within the nation. The poster of her movie depicted a girl wearing a dressing up portraying the goddess and smoking.

Reacting to Twitter’s motion, Leena in a tweet requested whether or not the social media platform would additionally withhold posts by “hate mongers”.

“This is hilarous. Will @TwitterIndia withhold the tweets of the 200000 hate mongers?! These lowlife trolls tweeted and spread the very same poster that they find objectionable. Kaali cannot be lynched. Kaali cannot be raped. Kaali cannot be destroyed. She is the goddess of death,” she wrote.

However, it isn’t clear when Twitter truly took the tweet down.

The authentic tweet has been changed by a message from Twitter.

“This Tweet from @LeenaManimekali has been withheld in India in response to a legal demand,” learn the message.

Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra has been booked for allegedly hurting non secular sentiments after her touch upon Goddess Kali stirred an issue. An FIR has been registered in Bhopal towards Moitra below part 295A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for hurting non secular sentiments.

Earlier this week, the microblogging service sought to overturn some Indian authorities orders to take down content material on the social media platform, in a authorized problem which alleges abuse of energy by officers.

Twitter has been requested by Indian authorities over the previous yr to behave on content material together with accounts supportive of an unbiased Sikh state, posts alleged to have unfold misinformation about protests by farmers and over tweets essential of the federal government’s dealing with of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Indian authorities has beforehand mentioned that huge social media companies, together with Twitter, haven’t complied with elimination requests, regardless of their authorized standing.

Late final month, Twitter was warned by India’s IT ministry of felony proceedings if it didn’t adjust to some orders. Twitter is claimed to have complied, in order to not lose legal responsibility exemptions out there as a bunch of content material.