After facingpolice raids, minister snarks, andweeks of drama, Twitter has finally complied with the new IT laws in India.
The government of India todayconfirmed to the Delhi High Courtthat the social network has now fulfilled all requirements of the country’s content policing rules.
The new rules mandated that significant social media intermediaries — platforms with more than 5 million users — need to havehad to appoint a nodal officer, a compliance officer, and agrievance officer residing in India.
While the company had an interim grievance officer based in India, there were no other permanent hires made until last month. In July, the social network appointed Vinay Prakash asthe resident grievance officer. Plus, it has also appointed a nodal officer and a compliance officer in the last couple of weeks.
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Twitter faced a lot of scrutiny for not complying with the new IT rules over the past few months, and at one point, it also faced the danger of losing itssafe harbor protection. Because of this non-compliance,police in several states lodged complaints against the platform, and Twitter India’s head, Manish Maheshwari for allegedly failing to control hate speech.
Now that the company has ticked all the boxes for compliance, Twitter might have the government off its back — at least until the next big kerfuffle.
Story byIvan Mehta
Ivan covers Big Tech, India, policy, AI, security, platforms, and apps for TNW. That’s one heck of a mixed bag. He likes to say “Bleh.“Ivan covers Big Tech, India, policy, AI, security, platforms, and apps for TNW. That’s one heck of a mixed bag. He likes to say “Bleh.”
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