Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover: Govt expects platforms to comply with local rules

New Delhi: India’s expectation of Twitter complying with the country’s rules for social media platforms will not change with its takeover by Elon Musk, according to a senior minister. The world’s richest man and CEO of electric car maker Tesla Inc has become Twitter Inc’s new owner and the self-described free speech absolutist fired top executives, including chief executive Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal and legal affairs and policy chief Vijaya Gadde.

“How does it matter to government who owns what. Our laws and rules are applicable to platforms regardless of who owns it or who doesn’t own it,” Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar told PTI in reply to a specific question on the ownership change at Twitter.