Twitter violated laws between 2020-22: Amit Malviya
tech.hindustantimes.comThe 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 lines, including several Twitter employees (Dorsey himself is guilty of it)…"
He said 'Twitter Files', released after Elon Musk got rid of "toxic people" in Twitter, is a testimony.
"It can't be the case that Twitter was always in the right and every other government, including their own, in the US, was wrong," said Malviya.
He said Twitter was in violation of India laws for an extended period (between 2020-2022).
"But neither was Twitter ever shut down nor its employees raided or sent to jail, despite Dorsey and his colleagues actively pursuing a policy, which was at loggerheads with Indian regulations. They were also allowing their platform to be used by foreign forces inimical to India's interest, on several occasions, which posed grave threat to India's national security and well being," said Malviya.
He also slammed Opposition Congress saying they were "excited" by an "invertebrate liar's misplaced assertions".
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