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Elon Musk’s X challenges India ruling on content blocking, cites censorship risk
2Aug By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk’s X challenges India ruling on content blocking, cites censorship risk

[ad_1] Social media platform X is seeking to quash a court ruling that it was not compliant with government orders to remove content, arguing it could embolden New Delhi to block more content and broaden the scope for censorship.X, formerly known as Twitter, in July 2022 sought to overturn government orders to remove some content from its platform. A court in June 2023 quashed that request and imposed a fine of 5 million rupees ($60,560). X has now appealed against that decision, arguing in a 96-page filing that the government "will be emboldened to issue more blocking orders" that violate law. The filing, which was dated Aug. 1 but has not been posted publicly, was submitted by local law firm Poovayya & Co at the Karnataka High Court. The original lawsuit predates X's ownership by ...
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Government asks Twitter to take down Manipur video of women being paraded naked
20Jul By adminNo Comments
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Government asks Twitter to take down Manipur video of women being paraded naked

[ad_1] Amidst the ongoing turmoil in Manipur, a shocking video has surfaced on Twitter where two women were forcefully stripped and paraded naked by a mob. The government has now asked Twitter, and other social media platforms to take down that video as the matter is under investigation, ANI reported. This is not the first time the Indian government has reportedly asked Twitter to remove content from its platform.The Manipur video sparked outrage and condemnation on social media platforms and there were calls for decisive action to be taken against the wrongdoers. Bollywood actors like Akshay Kumar, Richa Chadha, Urmila Matondkar, Vir Das and Renuka Sahane have reacted too and expressed their concerns about the incident in the northeastern state. The state has been racked with clashes b...
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Suspended Twitter account tracking Elon Musk’s jet moves to rival Meta’s Threads
9Jul By adminNo Comments
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Suspended Twitter account tracking Elon Musk’s jet moves to rival Meta’s Threads

[ad_1]  Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account tracking Elon Musk's private jet in real time, has moved to Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter last year."ElonJet has arrived to Threads!" read Sweeney's first post on Thursday from the account handle @elonmusksjet, which had over 21,000 followers as of Saturday morning. ElonJet has tracked the movements of Musk's private jet using data available in the public domain. In December Twitter Inc, owned by Musk, suspended the ElonJet account, with the billionaire threatening legal action against the account's operator after saying his son had been mistakenly followed by a "crazy stalker".Meta-owned Threads, posing a direct challenge to Twitter, garnered millions of users in hours, including prominent figu...
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Learning for Twitter and Jack Dorsey says Union minister after social media site suffers setback in India
1Jul By adminNo Comments
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Learning for Twitter and Jack Dorsey says Union minister after social media site suffers setback in India

[ad_1] It was nothing short of a big setback for former Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey in India. The court has had the final say in a matter that arose after Twitter failed to take down various accounts on the orders issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The Karnataka High Court, on Friday, rejected the petition filed by the social media giant. In a significant ruling, the single-judge bench of Justice Krishna S Dixit delivered the judgment. Alongside the decision, the judge imposed a substantial penalty of Rs. 50 lakh on Twitter, payable to the Karnataka State Legal Services Authority within 45 days. While giving the order, Justice Krishna S Dixit said, “The statutory committee comprises high functionaries of the government and there is no allegation...
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Twitter to Facebook, social media does more harm than good to society and AI will add to the problem
13Jun By adminNo Comments
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Twitter to Facebook, social media does more harm than good to society and AI will add to the problem

[ad_1] Social media portals like Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram have been doing more harm than good to all societies. There is too much misinformation, rumor-mongering, and influencing that goes on due to their increasing use.While social media empowered people in an unprecedented manner creating influencers, and a space for people to express opinions freely to attract the attention of those in power on various issues, it has also created an atmosphere of confusion between truth/reality and fiction/falsity. In particular, political misinformation, fear-mongering, and hero worship have been some of the harmful effects of social media. The Harm in Shutting Down TwitterHaving said that, I am not sure shutting down a social media platform is a solution, because if you do shut down, or try ...
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Twitter violated laws between 2020-22: Amit Malviya
13Jun By adminNo Comments
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Twitter violated laws between 2020-22: Amit Malviya

[ad_1]  The BJP's IT department head Amit Malviya  came down heavily on former Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey, saying the social media company was in violation of laws between 2020-2022 when he was at the helm of affairs.Malviya's counter offensive through a Twitter post after Dorsey claimed the Indian government threatened raids on employees and shutdown if the company did not take down posts critical of the government during the farmers protest against three new laws in 2020 and 2021. Malviya said that Under Dorsey the firm had turned "rogue, disregarding laws of the sovereigns they operated in, muzzling freedom of speech (shadow banning ideologically differing voices) and in many cases promoting secessionist voices and those who were working to exacerbate social fault li...
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Rajeev Chandrasekhar says Jack Dorsey’s claims of India threatening to shut down Twitter is an Outright Lie
13Jun By adminNo Comments
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Rajeev Chandrasekhar says Jack Dorsey’s claims of India threatening to shut down Twitter is an Outright Lie

[ad_1] Just hours after a shocking video interview of Twitter cofounder and former CEO Jack Dorsey was posted online, where he made allegations against the Indian government and said they threatened to shut down Twitter offices in India if they did not block accounts that were critical of the government during the farmer's protest, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar has responded in a tweet, and called the claims an “outright lie”.  [ad_2] Source link
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Shocking! Elon Musk shuts Delhi, Mumbai Twitter offices; Employees sent home
17Feb By adminNo Comments
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Shocking! Elon Musk shuts Delhi, Mumbai Twitter offices; Employees sent home

[ad_1] In a shock move, Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter has shut two of its three India offices today, February 17, as per reports. The move aligns with Musk's larger mission to cut costs and make the social media company more efficient and leaner. All the employees who were working in these two offices have been asked to work from home.Last year, Twitter had fired more than 90% of its roughly 200-plus staff in India and now it has closed its offices in the capital of the nation,New Delhi and financial hub Mumbai, according to a report by Bloomberg. The company continues to operate an office in Bengaluru. This office houses mainly engineers, the report stated and highlighted that the report came from people declining to be identified as the information is private. Twitter shuts down two ...
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Elon Musk has very bad news for Twitter users in India
17Nov By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk has very bad news for Twitter users in India

[ad_1] Elon Musk says Twitter is very slow in India. Musk even said sorry to users. Twitter new CEO Elon Musk has said that the social networking app is very slow in India by saying that this is a 'fact' and not 'claim'. Musk also said that 10-15 seconds to refresh homeline tweets is common and the issue is especially seen on Android phones. The new CEO of Twitter said this while replying to a tweet by former Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer (@schrep)."Twitter is very slow in India, Indonesia & many other countries. This is fact, not “claim”. 10 to 15 secs to refresh homeline tweets is common. Sometimes, it doesn't work at all, especially on Android phones. Only question is how much delay is due to bandwidth/latency/app.," Musk tweeted. While the tweet by Schroepfer read, "Basic internet ...
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