How does the government block websites and networks? What does the law in India cover?
The story so far: The Centre has issued notice to Twitter after the micro-blogging site restored more than 250 accounts that had been suspended earlier on the government’s ‘legal demand’. The government wants the platform to comply with its earlier order of January 31 by which it was asked to block accounts and a controversial hashtag that spoke of an impending ‘genocide’ of farmers for allegedly promoting misinformation about the protests, adversely affecting public order. Twitter reinstated the accounts and tweets on its own and later refused to go back on the decision, contending that it found no violation of its policy.
Are platforms required to comply with government requests?
Cooperation between technology services companies and law enforcement agencies is now deemed a vital part of fighting cybercrime, and various other crimes that are committed using computer resources. These…
