Govt asks Twitter to ‘take down’ Freedom House’s tweets

The government last year asked Twitter to block multiple accounts and some tweets from advocacy group Freedom House, journalists, politicians and supporters of the farmers’ protest, a document filed by the platform on June 26 says.

The requests from the government were sent between January 5 and December 29 last year, according to the document filed with the Lumen database. Leading Internet companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter file information with the database about weblinks or accounts they have been asked to block by any entity under applicable laws. Details about whether a request to block a link or account was fulfilled are not available on the database.

An email query to the electronics and IT ministry evoked no reply.