By means of PTI
KURUKSHETRA: Many Twitter accounts which highlighted the farmers’ stir towards the now repealed farm rules have been blocked, BKU chief Rakesh Tikait alleged on Tuesday after ex-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claimed the platform was once threatened with shutdown except it complied with orders to limit accounts all over the farmers’ protest.
Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Tikait, probably the most key farmers leaders who led the agitation towards the farm rules, alleged there was once govt force on Twitter and so they used to request that the ones accounts which spotlight the farmers stir will have to be closed, their succeed in will have to be much less and so they will have to be proven much less.
The Centre has rubbished the costs, pronouncing Dorsey’s Twitter regime had an issue accepting the sovereignty of Indian regulation.
Replying to questions at the factor, Tikait, additionally a senior chief of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, advised journalists right here, there was once “force” from govt to minimise the succeed in of farmers. This is how they wreck an agitation,” he mentioned.
When requested if the Modi govt pressured Twitter to close down accounts of farmers and farmer’s motion, Tikait claimed many accounts which highlighted the agitation have been blocked.
Even babies knew that if the farmers’ stir is highlighted then accounts can be blocked, he alleged and added that many of those accounts nonetheless proceed to stay “closed”.
He alleged that BJP govt does no longer tolerate any opposition to its instructions.
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Dorsey, who give up 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 govt “burdened” the corporate with threats of a shutdown and raids on workers if it didn’t agree to requests to take down posts and prohibit accounts that have been essential of the federal government over the protest through farmers towards new rules in 2020 and 2021.
Then again, Union Minister of State for IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar rubbished the claims and mentioned, “@twitter underneath Dorsey and his workforce have been in repeated and steady violations of India regulation.
As a question of truth they have been in non-compliance with regulation again and again from 2020 to 2022 and it was once best June 2022 after they in spite of everything complied”.
Tikait is in Kurukshetra’s Pipli, the place farmers have blocked the nationwide freeway since Monday over the call for for MSP for sunflower seeds.
KURUKSHETRA: Many Twitter accounts which highlighted the farmers’ stir towards the now repealed farm rules have been blocked, BKU chief Rakesh Tikait alleged on Tuesday after ex-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claimed the platform was once threatened with shutdown except it complied with orders to limit accounts all over the farmers’ protest.
Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Tikait, probably the most key farmers leaders who led the agitation towards the farm rules, alleged there was once govt force on Twitter and so they used to request that the ones accounts which spotlight the farmers stir will have to be closed, their succeed in will have to be much less and so they will have to be proven much less.
The Centre has rubbished the costs, pronouncing Dorsey’s Twitter regime had an issue accepting the sovereignty of Indian regulation.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );
Replying to questions at the factor, Tikait, additionally a senior chief of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, advised journalists right here, there was once “force” from govt to minimise the succeed in of farmers. This is how they wreck an agitation,” he mentioned.
When requested if the Modi govt pressured Twitter to close down accounts of farmers and farmer’s motion, Tikait claimed many accounts which highlighted the agitation have been blocked.
Even babies knew that if the farmers’ stir is highlighted then accounts can be blocked, he alleged and added that many of those accounts nonetheless proceed to stay “closed”.
He alleged that BJP govt does no longer tolerate any opposition to its instructions.
ALSO READ | Congress calls for solutions on ex-Twitter CEO’s ‘force from Centre’ commentary all over farmers stir
Dorsey, who give up 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 govt “burdened” the corporate with threats of a shutdown and raids on workers if it didn’t agree to requests to take down posts and prohibit accounts that have been essential of the federal government over the protest through farmers towards new rules in 2020 and 2021.
Then again, Union Minister of State for IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar rubbished the claims and mentioned, “@twitter underneath Dorsey and his workforce have been in repeated and steady violations of India regulation.
As a question of truth they have been in non-compliance with regulation again and again from 2020 to 2022 and it was once best June 2022 after they in spite of everything complied”.
Tikait is in Kurukshetra’s Pipli, the place farmers have blocked the nationwide freeway since Monday over the call for for MSP for sunflower seeds.