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  • NCW asks Twitter to take away all pornographic, obscene content material inside every week

    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)

  • FIR in opposition to Twitter below POCSO, IT Acts for hyperlinks, materials on baby sexual abuse

    Delhi Police Cyber Cell has registered an FIR below the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and Information Technology (IT) Act in opposition to Twitter after receiving a grievance from the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), citing availability of hyperlinks and materials pertaining to baby exploitation.
    “Acting on a complaint received from the NCPCR regarding availability of child sexual abuse and child pornographic material on Twitter in the form of various accounts and links, a Case FIR under relevant sections of IPC, IT Act and POCSO Act has been registered by Cyber Crime Unit, and investigation has been taken up,” Delhi Police Spokesperson Chinmoy Biswal stated, including that the grievance was made in opposition to Twitter Inc and Twitter Communication India Private Ltd.
    The grievance is the newest addition to a sequence of controversies Twitter India is embroiled in. On Monday, senior authorities officers stated that Twitter in India is now not an “intermediary” and, due to this fact, can’t be offered the authorized safety that’s accorded to Internet intermediaries below Section 79 of the IT Act.
    The resolution comes after the tech big failed to stick to norms of the brand new IT guidelines, requiring appointment of executives as Resident Grievance Officer, Nodal Officer and Chief Compliance Officer. While Twitter had introduced the appointment of Dhar.mendra Chatur as interim resident grievance officer, he resigned from the corporate on Sunday.
    Despite a letter dated June 6  to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, assuring that Twitter was working to make everlasting appointments to those posts, the ministry officers have stated that as of Monday, Twitter had not shared these particulars.
    In May, the Delhi Police Special Cell had reached Twitter India’s places of work to serve them a discover over the ‘manipulated media’ tag on Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Sambit Patra’s tweet concerning the controversial ‘Congress toolkit.’
    Earlier, Twitter and the Centre had locked heads over almost 100 accounts that the Government of India had requested the micro-blogging website to dam over tweets on the farmers’ protest. However, Twitter had unblocked the accounts, after conveying to the Centre “that the accounts and Tweets in question constitute free speech and are newsworthy.”
    With inputs from Mahender Singh Manral