Twitter tilted after the strictness of the government, told in Delhi High Court, new IT rules are being followed

After a long confrontation with the central government, social media platform Twitter has finally decided to implement new IT rules. This information has been given by Twitter to the Delhi High Court on 31^st May 2021. Twitter told the High Court that it has implemented the IT Rules, 2021 and has also appointed a local officer in India from May 28, who will deal with local complaints.

In the High Court, where Twitter said that we have obeyed the laws of the Center, the government said that it did not happen. A petition was filed last week in the Delhi High Court against the social media network Twitter for not following the new information technology rules issued by the central government. In the petition, there was a demand to order Twitter to follow the rules issued by the government with immediate effect.

Twitter has not done any work towards enforcing the rules

Advocate Amit Acharya had said in the petition that the Central Government, while issuing new information technology rules on February 25 this year, had directed all social media networks, including Twitter, to implement it within 3 months. Twitter is yet to appoint a local grievance officer to handle complaints about tweets on its platform, even after the May 25 deadline.

The Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Code of Conduct) Rules, 2021 was notified by the Central Government on February 25, 2021. Under this, social media networks will have to find out who sent a message first. Along with this, they have been asked to appoint a local complaints officer for redressal of complaints about any post, message.

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