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A Video After Ghaziabad Attack Surrounds Twitter In Communal Angle

In new difficulty for Twitter, the microblogging platform and many journalists have been named in a FIR for “flaring communal sentiments” after an elderly Muslim man asserted in a video that his facial hair growth was trimmed off and he had to recite “Vande Mataram” and “Jai Shri Ram”. Police, notwithstanding, have ruling out any “communal angle”.

The charge against Twitter is that it didn’t delete the tweet regardless of an explanation by the Ghaziabad police. A case under sections 153 (provocation with intent to cause riot), 153a (promoting enmity between different groups), 295a (intentions to outrage religious feeling), 505 (statement conducting public mischief) and 120b (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC has been filed at Loni police headquarters.

Ruling out any communal point for the situation, the UP Police said Sufi Abdul Samad, the elderly man, was assaulted by six men – Hindus and Muslims – who were unhappy over the talismans he had sold them. The FIR makes reference to many journalists – Rana Ayyub, Saba Naqvi and Mohammed Zubair just as online news stage “The Wire”.

In a tweet, Mohammed Zubair said, “I’ve deleted the videos that I had posted. The victim’s version of him being forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram” at this point in time do not seem to add up based on my conversations with police authorities and other journalists reporting on this issue. (sic)”

This is the primary argument against Twitter where it has been expected to take responsibility for third get-together substance after Center’s new guidelines for online news publishing platforms became effective. The microblogging site “has lost the legal shield”, sources within in the said, “as it neglected to adhere to the new IT rules”.

On Tuesday, the social media platform said it delegated an interim Chief Compliance Officer as ordered by the Center’s new laws. A representative said the organization “continues to make every effort” to adhere to the new rules and is keeping the IT Ministry advised about progress at each progression of the cycle.

The move by Twitter accepts importance as the microblogging site has been confronting heat over delay in accepting the IT decides that command the digital platforms to attempt more prominent due diligence, and make them more responsible and answerable for the content that is posted. According to the rules, the social media intermediaries — those with more than 50 lakh users — are needed to select a complaint official, a nodal official and a main compliance official. These staff must be inhabitants in India.

The Government had given a notification to Twitter giving it final chance to “quickly” conform to the new IT rules and cautioned that failing to complying with rules will prompt the social media giant losing exemption from liability under the IT Act.

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