Twitter no extra enjoys legal responsibility safety in opposition to user-generated content material in India because the US microblogging big has did not adjust to new IT guidelines, the Indian authorities stated in a courtroom submitting.

The assertion is the primary time Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration has formally stated Twitter has misplaced its immunity after repeatedly criticising the corporate for non-compliance.

The dispute and the general public spat has raised concern that American companies will discover it tough to do enterprise amid a extra stringent regulatory atmosphere.

India’s IT ministry informed the High Court in New Delhi that Twitter’s non-compliance amounted to a breach of the provisions of the IT Act, inflicting the US agency to lose its immunity, in line with the submitting dated July 5.

The submitting got here in a case filed by a Twitter person who needed to complain about some allegedly defamatory tweets on the platform, and stated the corporate was not complying with the brand new legislation that requires appointment of sure new executives.

Twitter declined to remark. The firm has beforehand stated it was making all efforts to conform.

India’s new IT guidelines which grew to become efficient end-May are aimed toward regulating content material on social media companies and making them extra accountable to authorized requests for swift elimination of posts and sharing particulars on the originators of messages.

Technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has slammed Twitter for intentionally defying the legislation and stated all social media companies should abide by the brand new guidelines.

In latest weeks, as acrimony grew between New Delhi and Twitter, Indian police have filed no less than 5 circumstances in opposition to the corporate or its officers, together with some associated to baby pornography and a controversial map of India on its profession web page.

Police in two Indian states have named Twitter India chief Manish Maheshwari in complaints. Separately, the state of Uttar Pradesh has challenged within the Supreme Court a bar on police motion in opposition to Maheshwari, after a decrease courtroom protected him in opposition to arrest over an accusation that the platform was used to unfold hate.

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