Indian laws must be followed irrespective of Twitter’s own rules: Govt issues statement

Centre on Wednesday issued a statement after holding a virtual conference with officials of Twitter amid its recent “disagreement” with the micro-blogging site on its representation of farmers’ agitation over the platform.

The Secretary Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India held a virtual interaction with Monique Meche, Vice President Global Public Policy and Jim Baker Deputy General Counsel and Vice President Legal today.

“In view of the order issued by the Centre directing Twitter to remove tweets and accounts using hashtag related to ‘farmer genocide’ and accounts supported by Khalistan sympathizers and backed by Pakistan and blog post issued by Twitter today morning, this meeting took place as per schedule,” an official statement read.