Govt says Twitter not entitled to safe harbour, experts argue otherwise
Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday said Twitter has “deliberately” chosen not to comply with the new social media and intermediary guidelines even as officials said the company will lose its legal protection from penal action for third party content over the non-compliance.
“There are numerous queries arising as to whether Twitter is entitled to safe harbour provision. However, the simple fact of the matter is that Twitter has failed to comply with the Intermediary Guidelines that came into effect from the 26th of May. Further, it was given multiple opportunities to comply with the same, however it has deliberately chosen the path of non-compliance,” Prasad wrote on Twitter.