By PTI
KURUKSHETRA: Many Twitter accounts which highlighted the farmers’ stir towards the now repealed farm legal guidelines have been blocked, BKU chief Rakesh Tikait alleged on Tuesday after ex-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claimed the platform was threatened with shutdown except it complied with orders to limit accounts throughout the farmers’ protest.
Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Tikait, one of many key farmers leaders who led the agitation towards the farm legal guidelines, alleged there was authorities strain on Twitter they usually used to request that these accounts which spotlight the farmers stir must be closed, their attain must be much less and they need to be proven much less.
The Centre has rubbished the costs, saying Dorsey’s Twitter regime had an issue accepting the sovereignty of Indian legislation.
Replying to questions on the difficulty, Tikait, additionally a senior chief of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, informed reporters right here, there was “pressure” from authorities to minimise the attain of farmers. That is how they break an agitation,” he stated.
When requested if the Modi authorities compelled Twitter to close down accounts of farmers and farmer’s motion, Tikait claimed many accounts which highlighted the agitation have been blocked.
Even young children knew that if the farmers’ stir is highlighted then accounts will likely be blocked, he alleged and added that many of those accounts nonetheless proceed to stay “closed”.
He alleged that BJP authorities doesn’t tolerate any opposition to its instructions.
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Dorsey, who stop as Twitter CEO in 2021, made the sensational allegation in an interview with the YouTube information present Breaking Points on Monday.
He claimed that the Indian authorities “pressured” the corporate with threats of a shutdown and raids on workers if it didn’t adjust to requests to take down posts and limit accounts that have been vital of the federal government over the protest by farmers towards new legal guidelines in 2020 and 2021.
However, Union Minister of State for IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar rubbished the claims and stated, “@twitter underneath Dorsey and his workforce have been in repeated and steady violations of India legislation.
As a matter of truth they have been in non-compliance with legislation repeatedly from 2020 to 2022 and it was solely June 2022 once they lastly complied”.
Tikait is in Kurukshetra’s Pipli, the place farmers have blocked the nationwide freeway since Monday over the demand for MSP for sunflower seeds.
KURUKSHETRA: Many Twitter accounts which highlighted the farmers’ stir towards the now repealed farm legal guidelines have been blocked, BKU chief Rakesh Tikait alleged on Tuesday after ex-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claimed the platform was threatened with shutdown except it complied with orders to limit accounts throughout the farmers’ protest.
Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Tikait, one of many key farmers leaders who led the agitation towards the farm legal guidelines, alleged there was authorities strain on Twitter they usually used to request that these accounts which spotlight the farmers stir must be closed, their attain must be much less and they need to be proven much less.
The Centre has rubbished the costs, saying Dorsey’s Twitter regime had an issue accepting the sovereignty of Indian legislation.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );
Replying to questions on the difficulty, Tikait, additionally a senior chief of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, informed reporters right here, there was “pressure” from authorities to minimise the attain of farmers. That is how they break an agitation,” he stated.
When requested if the Modi authorities compelled Twitter to close down accounts of farmers and farmer’s motion, Tikait claimed many accounts which highlighted the agitation have been blocked.
Even young children knew that if the farmers’ stir is highlighted then accounts will likely be blocked, he alleged and added that many of those accounts nonetheless proceed to stay “closed”.
He alleged that BJP authorities doesn’t tolerate any opposition to its instructions.
ALSO READ | Congress calls for solutions on ex-Twitter CEO’s ‘strain from Centre’ comment throughout farmers stir
Dorsey, who stop as Twitter CEO in 2021, made the sensational allegation in an interview with the YouTube information present Breaking Points on Monday.
He claimed that the Indian authorities “pressured” the corporate with threats of a shutdown and raids on workers if it didn’t adjust to requests to take down posts and limit accounts that have been vital of the federal government over the protest by farmers towards new legal guidelines in 2020 and 2021.
However, Union Minister of State for IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar rubbished the claims and stated, “@twitter underneath Dorsey and his workforce have been in repeated and steady violations of India legislation.
As a matter of truth they have been in non-compliance with legislation repeatedly from 2020 to 2022 and it was solely June 2022 once they lastly complied”.
Tikait is in Kurukshetra’s Pipli, the place farmers have blocked the nationwide freeway since Monday over the demand for MSP for sunflower seeds.