Center gives Twitter “one last chance” to comply with new IT rules

The gov­ern­ment has told Twit­ter it will com­ply with all pre­vi­ous orders until July 4, an offi­cial source said on Wednes­day. The Depart­ment of Elec­tron­ics and IT has set a dead­line of July 4, oth­er­wise Twit­ter may lose its inter­me­di­ary sta­tus, mean­ing it will be liable for any com­ments post­ed on its plat­form. “On June 27, a notice was issued to Twit­ter to com­ply with all gov­ern­ment orders issued to date. Twit­ter received notices ear­li­er this month, but it has­n’t fol­lowed through. This is the final com­mu­ni­ca­tion,” a gov­ern­ment source told PTI.

An email query sent to Twit­ter did not trig­ger an imme­di­ate response.

Twit­ter has been in con­flict with the gov­ern­ment on sev­er­al occasions.

On June 26, the microblog­ging site sub­mit­ted a list of over 80 Twit­ter accounts and tweets that it has blocked in 2021 due to a gov­ern­ment request.

The gov­ern­men­t’s request was to ban sev­er­al accounts and some tweets from inter­na­tion­al advo­ca­cy group Free­dom House, jour­nal­ists, politi­cians and sup­port­ers of the farm­ers’ protest.

How­ev­er, the gov­ern­ment source said there are sev­er­al oth­er orders that Twit­ter has yet to com­ply with and they have been giv­en a final July 4 dead­line for compliance.