Not acting on government requests could put Twitter in legal soup

Twitter could face legal action from the Indian government if it fails to speedily comply with repeated requests to delete about 1,400 handles on the microblogging platform that are allegedly instigating protests against the farm bills, senior government officials told ET. The Centre wants to give the US company some more “time” to comply with the requests as it doesn’t want to be seen as “high-handed or vindictive,” said one person cited above.

Digital rights experts feel any face-off between India and the social media company could emerge as a global “test case.”