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 lady wearing a fancy dress 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 is not 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 spiritual sentiments after her touch upon Goddess Kali stirred an argument. An FIR has been registered in Bhopal in opposition to Moitra underneath part 295A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for hurting spiritual 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 crucial of the federal government’s dealing with of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Indian authorities has beforehand mentioned that massive 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 alleged to have complied, in order to not lose legal responsibility exemptions obtainable as a number of content material.