Twitter seeking to undermine India’s legal system, government says

The government has accused Twitter of seeking to undermine India’s legal system and refusing to comply with the intermediary guidelines that allow it to claim safe harbour protection from any criminal liability in India.

“Protecting free speech in India is not the prerogative of only a private, for-profit, foreign entity like Twitter, but it is the commitment of the world’s largest democracy and its robust institutions,” the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) said in a strong rebuttal to Twitter’s accusation on Thursday.