The Centre on Wednesday sent a notice to Twitter for restoring accounts which used a certain hashtag linked to the farmers’ protest, The Indian Express reported. The government had on Monday directed the microblogging platform to withhold around 250 such accounts.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology warned Twitter that there will be consequences of not complying with “directions issued under section 69A of Information Technology Act”.
“The direction to block the hashtag ‘#ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide’ has been found to be instigating people to commit cognisable offences in relations to public order and security of the state,” the ministry said in its notice to Twitter. “It may be noted that the impracticability or the disproportionality of the said measure cannot be decided [by] Twitter which is an intermediary bound by the orders of the Central government.”
The government said that Twitter was obliged to adhere to the authorities’…