Twitter chose not to comply, says Centre

New Delhi: Union minister for electronics and information technology Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday said Twitter has deliberately chosen to not comply with the country’s new social media and intermediary guidelines, even as officials in his ministry said that this could make the social media company lose the protection it enjoys as an intermediary, although experts said whether or not the company is an intermediary will be decided by the courts, not the ministry.

The guidelines came into effect on May 26. The rules are in place, and whether they have been violated or not, the experts added, is also something the courts have to decide.