The National Commission for Women (NCW) has requested the Managing Director of Twitter India to take away all pornographic and obscene content material from the platform inside every week. NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma has additionally written to the Commissioner of Police, Delhi searching for a probe into the matter and applicable authorized motion.
“The NCW has taken suo motu cognisance of several profiles on Twitter sharing pornographic content. Chairperson Rekha Sharma has written to Managing Director, Twitter India for immediately removing all such pornographic and obscene content from the platform within a week,” the ladies’s panel stated in a press release, PTI reported.
NCW stated it had acquired the same grievance earlier after which it introduced the matter to Twitter’s consideration, however no motion was taken.
“The commission has shared with Twitter details of a few profiles sharing pornographic content on Twitter and has directed to remove all such content within one week. The platform has also been asked to communicate action taken within 10 days,” it added.
The panel additional stated it was disturbed with the truth that regardless of realizing in regards to the availability of content material that not solely violates Indian legal guidelines but additionally Twitter’s personal coverage, no motion was taken by the social media agency.
Speaking in regards to the case, a Twitter spokesperson informed ANI, “Twitter has a zero-tolerance policy for Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE). We will continue to invest in proactive detection & removal of content that violates Twitter rules and work with law enforcement and NGO partners in India to tackle the issue.”
Earlier, following a grievance by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), the Delhi Police on Tuesday despatched a discover to Twitter, searching for particulars of the steps taken by it towards the circulation of kid pornographic content material on its platform.
The Delhi Police, which has additionally registered an FIR towards Twitter in reference to the matter, has additionally sought particulars of the accounts circulating such materials.
The developments come within the backdrop of the backlash the microblogging website has been going through from the federal government.
Police in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district lodged an FIR towards Twitter India MD Manish Maheshwari and one other firm official on Tuesday after a map on the platform’s web site confirmed the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as mendacity exterior the borders of India. Twitter later eliminated the map after outrage on social media.
Moreover, the parliamentary standing committee on IT has sought a proof from Twitter on the blocking of the accounts of Union Information and Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and committee chairman Shashi Tharoor.
Senior authorities officers on Monday stated the Centre has concluded that Twitter in India is not an “intermediary” and, due to this fact, can’t be supplied the authorized safety that’s accorded to Internet intermediaries below Section 79 of the Information Technology Act.
(WIth inputs from PTI and ANI)