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By Rina Chandran
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Twitter<\/a>'s decision to reject Indian demands that it take down content and block accounts the government dislikes shows a tough new tack by social media<\/a> giants that analysts say could set a precedent in the face of growing regulatory crackdowns.
On Tuesday, the U.S. social media<\/a> platform asked an Indian court to overturn some of the government orders to kill posts, which Delhi had accused of spreading misinformation.
They included posts that backed farmer protests and tweets critical of the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Twitter<\/a> called the crackdown overbroad and arbitrary, with the government demonstrating an \"excessive use of powers\".
A date for the hearing has not been set.
Whatever its outcome, the case may have ramifications far beyond India as countries increasingly seek to curtail the power of social media, said Prateek Waghre of the Internet Freedom Foundation, a digital rights group in Delhi.
\"There are going to be more confrontations with the government here,\" he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
\"We are also seeing a trend towards regulating online content even in liberal democracies including the UK and the EU<\/a> (European Union),\" he said. \"India is a big and important market, so what happens here will set a precedent.\"
India's minister for information technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw<\/a>, told reporters on Tuesday that making social media accountable \"has become a very valid question\".
\"All across the globe, countries and societies are moving in the direction of making social media accountable,\" he said, without giving specific details.
The government has previously accused social media platforms of violating the constitutional rights of Indian citizens.
Twitter - which has about 24 million users in India - did not respond to a request for comment.
IN PERIL
Governments worldwide are imposing greater control on the flow of information online with a slew of regulations, as well as firewalls, internet shutdowns and social media blocks.
India has tightened regulation of Big Tech firms in recent years, including requiring the swift removal of posts and sharing details on the originators of messages.
Google, which owns YouTube, has received nearly 14,000 content removal<\/a> requests from the Indian government since 2011, with the frequency increasing, its data shows.
Twitter has received more than 17,000 removal requests from Jan 2012 to June 2021 from India - about 7% of its global content removal<\/a> requests.
Last year, WhatsApp<\/a>, a unit of Facebook, filed a suit against the Indian government seeking to block regulations that experts said would compel the firm to break privacy protections.
Authorities cite national security grounds for the restrictions, even as rights groups say they are being used to silence critics of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, including journalists, activists and opposition lawmakers.
Twitter's lawsuit is not about \"one Big Tech firm versus the Indian government,\" but about human rights and holding the government to account, said Raman Jit Singh Chima of Access Now, a digital rights group.
\"Twitter is standing up for the population and doing what should be the government's job: safeguarding our rights.\"
Twitter has also been criticised - along with other social media platforms - for not doing enough to check abuse directed at women and minority communities.
Casey Newton, founder of Platformer, a newsletter on Big Tech, said a lot was riding on the lawsuit.
\"Should Twitter lose, it would represent among the biggest losses to date for free expression,\" he wrote in his blog.
\"And it will give other opportunistic nations a handbook for how to silence their dissidents under the cover of national security.\"
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推特的决定拒绝印度要求它记下内容和冻结账户,政府不喜欢显示了一个严厉的新策略社交媒体巨人,分析师表示,只能设置一个先例,面对越来越多的监管打击。
周二,美国社交媒体平台要求印度法庭推翻一些政府命令杀死的帖子,德里曾指控传播错误信息。
他们包括文章,支持农民抗议和微博批评政府处理COVID-19大流行。
推特与政府镇压过于宽泛和任意,展示一个“过度使用权力”。
听证会的日期尚未确定。
无论它的结果,这样会不会影响远远超出了印度国家不断寻求减少社会媒体的力量,说Prateek Waghre互联网自由基金会的数字版权组在德里。
“会有更多与政府对抗,”他告诉《汤森路透基金会。
“我们也看到一个趋势调节在线内容即使在自由民主国家包括英国和欧盟(欧盟),”他说。“印度是一个大而重要的市场,所以这里发生了什么会设置一个先例。”
印度的信息技术部长Ashwini Vaishnaw周二告诉记者,让社会媒体责任”已成为一个非常有效的问题”。
“所有在全球范围内,国家和社会正在朝着的方向使社交媒体的责任,”他说,没有透露具体细节。
政府曾指责社会媒体平台违反印度公民的宪法权利。
Twitter——在印度约有2400万用户——没有回应记者的置评请求。
处于危险之中
世界各国政府施加更大的控制流的在线信息的规定,以及防火墙关闭互联网和社交媒体块。
印度近年来加强了对大型科技公司的监管,包括要求迅速删除帖子,分享细节消息的发起者。
拥有YouTube,谷歌已收到近14000人内容删除要求印度政府自2011年以来,随着频率增加,其数据显示。
Twitter已经收到了超过17000的删除请求从2012年1月到2021年6月从印度——大约7%的全球内容删除请求。
去年,WhatsApp的Facebook,提起诉讼反对印度政府试图阻止法规专家说会迫使该公司将隐私保护措施。
政府以国家安全为由的限制,尽管人权组织说,他们被用于沉默莫迪总理政府的批评家们指责,包括记者在内的激进分子和反对派议员。
Twitter的诉讼不是关于“一家大型科技公司与印度政府”,但是关于人权和政府账户,说拉曼辛格Jit反而访问,一个数字版权组。
“Twitter是人口和站起来做什么应该是政府的工作:维护我们的权利。”
Twitter也被批评——和其他社交媒体平台做得不够检查滥用针对妇女和少数族裔社区。
凯西牛顿,铂重整装置的创始人,对大型科技通讯,说很多诉讼。乐动扑克
“Twitter应该输了,它将代表言论自由迄今最大的损失,”他在他的博客中写道。
”,这将给其他机会主义国家手册如何沉默的持不同政见者的掩护下国家安全。”
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