By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: The Congress Tuesday demanded solutions from the Modi executive after ex-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claimed the platform was once threatened it could be close down until it complied with orders to limit accounts essential of the federal government all over the farmers’ protest.
The Centre has, alternatively, rubbished the costs, announcing Dorsey’s Twitter regime had an issue accepting the sovereignty of Indian regulation.
In a tweet, Congress basic secretary Randeep Surjewala stated, “The Modi Govt compelled Twitter to close down accounts of Farmers and Farmer’s motion, close down accounts of reporters essential of Govt, or Twitter and its workers could be raided.”
“That is what Twitter Co-Founder and Ex CEO Jack Dorsey admits in a TV interview. Will Modi Govt solution,” he requested.
Modi Government. compelled twitter to
Close down accounts of Farmers & Farmer’s motion,
Close down accounts of reporters essential of Government,
OR
Twitter and its workers could be raided.
That is what Twitter Co Founder and Ex CEO Jack Dorsey admits in a TV… percent.twitter.com/OmpSHl8RlI
— Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) June 13, 2023
He additionally shared clips from a TV interview wherein Dorsey levelled the allegations.
Congress chief Jairam Ramesh too took to Twitter, announcing, “All through the farmers agitation the cowardly BJP executive threatened to close down Twitter & raid the houses in their workers.”
All through the farmers agitation the cowardly BJP executive threatened to close down Twitter & raid the houses in their workers.
Watch our press convention on revelations through Twitter founder Jack Dorsey through my colleague @SupriyaShrinate at 11am.
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) June 13, 2023
Dorsey, who surrender as Twitter CEO in 2021, made the sensational allegation in an interview with the YouTube information display Breaking Issues on Monday.
He claimed that the Indian executive “careworn” the corporate with threats of a shutdown and raids on workers if it didn’t agree to requests to take down posts and limit accounts that had been essential of the federal government over the protest through farmers towards new rules in 2020 and 2021.
“It manifested in techniques akin to: ‘We will be able to close Twitter down in India’, which is an overly massive marketplace for us; ‘we will be able to raid the houses of your workers’, which they did; And that is India, a democratic nation,” he stated speaking about force Twitter beneath him confronted from the Indian executive.
Rubbishing the claims, Minister of State for IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar stated, “@twitter beneath Dorsey and his group had been in repeated and steady violations of India regulation. As a question of reality, they had been in non-compliance with the regulation again and again from 2020 to 2022 and it was once most effective June 2022 once they after all complied.”
NEW DELHI: The Congress Tuesday demanded solutions from the Modi executive after ex-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claimed the platform was once threatened it could be close down until it complied with orders to limit accounts essential of the federal government all over the farmers’ protest.
The Centre has, alternatively, rubbished the costs, announcing Dorsey’s Twitter regime had an issue accepting the sovereignty of Indian regulation.
In a tweet, Congress basic secretary Randeep Surjewala stated, “The Modi Govt compelled Twitter to close down accounts of Farmers and Farmer’s motion, close down accounts of reporters essential of Govt, or Twitter and its workers could be raided.”googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“That is what Twitter Co-Founder and Ex CEO Jack Dorsey admits in a TV interview. Will Modi Govt solution,” he requested.
Modi Government. compelled twitter to
Close down accounts of Farmers & Farmer’s motion,
Close down accounts of reporters essential of Government,
OR
Twitter and its workers could be raided.
That is what Twitter Co Founder and Ex CEO Jack Dorsey admits in a TV… percent.twitter.com/OmpSHl8RlI
— Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) June 13, 2023
He additionally shared clips from a TV interview wherein Dorsey levelled the allegations.
Congress chief Jairam Ramesh too took to Twitter, announcing, “All through the farmers agitation the cowardly BJP executive threatened to close down Twitter & raid the houses in their workers.”
All through the farmers agitation the cowardly BJP executive threatened to close down Twitter & raid the houses in their workers.
Watch our press convention on revelations through Twitter founder Jack Dorsey through my colleague @SupriyaShrinate at 11am.
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) June 13, 2023
Dorsey, who surrender as Twitter CEO in 2021, made the sensational allegation in an interview with the YouTube information display Breaking Issues on Monday.
He claimed that the Indian executive “careworn” the corporate with threats of a shutdown and raids on workers if it didn’t agree to requests to take down posts and limit accounts that had been essential of the federal government over the protest through farmers towards new rules in 2020 and 2021.
“It manifested in techniques akin to: ‘We will be able to close Twitter down in India’, which is an overly massive marketplace for us; ‘we will be able to raid the houses of your workers’, which they did; And that is India, a democratic nation,” he stated speaking about force Twitter beneath him confronted from the Indian executive.
Rubbishing the claims, Minister of State for IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar stated, “@twitter beneath Dorsey and his group had been in repeated and steady violations of India regulation. As a question of reality, they had been in non-compliance with the regulation again and again from 2020 to 2022 and it was once most effective June 2022 once they after all complied.”