Twitter restores Kisan Ekta Morcha and The Caravan accounts, among others after day-long suspension

Twitter accounts of activists Md Asif Khan and Hansraj meena, CPI (M) leader Mohammed Salim and AAP member Preeti Sharma Menon has also been restored.

Twitter had temporarily blocked these accounts in response to a valid legal request from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, according to the sources mentioned above. An official said that the Meity order continued and did not withdraw the order.

A senior official told ET that instructions were issued to block about 200 URLs for tweeting with the hashtag #modiplanningfarmergenocide.

“Given the state of law and order in the country, such tweets should have been restricted as they are provocative and provocative in nature. If Meity did not revoke the order and the accounts were restored, the government will ask Twitter why it did In fact, the order previously passed under the state of emergency, the importance of the situation is taken into account. Considering it has been confirmed today, so the order stands long, if Twitter violated it, the government will consider taking legal action against the platform.

He added that only accounts tweeting about the genocide were blocked and other people who tweeted anything about the farmer protests were not withdrawn. “And if Twitter has a problem with the blocking orders, they can appeal it in court.”

In the meeting with the relevant officials, Twitter stated that the content is free to speak and newsworthy, and a person who is aware of the issue said.

Earlier in the day, Twitter said many countries have laws that may apply to Tweets and / or Twitter account content.

“In our efforts to deliver our services to people everywhere, we may need to cease access to certain content in a particular country from time to time if we receive an appropriately comprehensive request from an authorized organization.” Declaration.