Prasad: Twitter chose path of non-compliance deliberately

New Delhi: Twitter has chosen the path of “non-compliance” with India’s revised intermediary guidelines and has shown “deliberate defiance” towards the new law, union minister for electronics and information technology Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Wednesday.

India’s commitment to the “constitutional guarantee” of freedom of speech was yet again reaffirmed at the recent G7 summit in the United Kingdom, the minister said. The attempts by companies to portray themselves as “flag bearers of free speech in India” in order to excuse themselves from complying with the law of the land are misplaced, he added.