The Centre has asked microblogging site Twitter to furnish telephone numbers and other identifiable sources that could help track suspicious accounts, as asked for by law enforcement agencies.
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The Union Home Ministry has increased interactions with social media platforms to arrest the spread of rumours inciting unrest and other activities detrimental to national security.
to Home Ministry, Twitter had complied with the requests of the law enforcement agencies in taking down objectionable or hateful content only in 60% cases.
It warned that said strict legal provisions will be invoked in case the social media platform did not comply with the request of the authorities to promptly remove objectionable content.
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to officials, if someone is verbally abused on the road, action is taken against that person under criminal laws, why should it be different in the virtual world.
However, according to twitter representatives, If the identity of anonymous accounts criticising the government’s policies are provided to the government agencies then it defeats the purpose of freedom of expression.
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