Twitter has been served a legal notice by the Indian government failing which the social media giant will lose ' intermediary' status ie. it will be liable and held accountable for all comments posted on its platform . The sarkar has apparently been very unhappy with what it perceives as anti-India, anti-party and seditious posts on the platform.Twitter has taken down several handles of international advocacy groups, journalists, politicians, supporters of the farmers protests, NGOs and free speech supporters at the 'request' of the Centre. It is interesting to note that most of the @17,000 'requests' were sent under the draconian section 69A of the IT Act as a result of which 1,600 accounts, 3,800 tweets and 6,300 other posts were taken down. This is another nail in the coffin of 'free speech'. The recent arrest of a journalist / factchecker over a complaint registered by a saffron Twitter user whose religious sentiments were purportedly hurt by a satirical post from the former makes it amply clear that the government only wants SM platforms to promote its divisive ideology, bigotry and vested interests and throttle free speech.
