On Thursday evening, Twitter blinked from eyeball to eyeball with the government when it announced that it had appointed a node officer to act as the complaints officer under the new IT rules. However, the central government has not viewed Twitter’s action as full compliance, and the war is far from over.
According to government sources, Twitter has named an attorney who works for a law firm in India as a nodal cum grievance agent. According to the 2021 Information Technology Rules (Intermediation Guidelines and Code of Ethics for Digital Media), the designated officials must be employees of the company other than being based in India, a senior government official said.
In addition, government sources said Twitter has not yet notified the center of the third required appointment, that of a compliance officer.
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Sources in the government said most of the major social media brokers complied with the new rules by providing the required details to their compliance officer, nodal officer and complaints officer. However, Twitter has yet to fully adhere to it.
Some major social media companies that have stuck to this so far are Koo, Sharechat, Telegram, LinkedIn, Google, Facebook, and WhatsApp.
A quick summary
On Thursday morning, Twitter announced that there were no plans to comply with the new IT rules, which went into effect on May 26th.
In its first official statement since the Delhi police raid on Delhi and Gurugram on Tuesday in connection with the Toolkit case, the social media giant said: “We will endeavor to comply with the applicable laws in India. But just like around the world, we will continue to be strictly guided by the principles of transparency, the obligation to strengthen every voice in the service and to protect freedom of expression and privacy under the rule of law. In addition to many in civil society in India and around the world, we have concerns about the core elements of the new IT rules. “
Twitter also stated that it “advocates changes to elements of these regulations that prevent free, open public conversation”.
Thursday evening The central government hit back on Twitter with a strongly worded statement. The center said, “Twitter needs to stop beating the bush and obey the laws of the country. Legislation and policy-making are the sole prerogative of the sovereign, and Twitter is just a social media platform. It has no place to dictate.” what India’s legal framework should be. “
WHAT ARE THE NEW RULES?
Amongst other things, The new rules are aimed at all large technology companies Appoint a Chief Compliance Officer from India who can respond to government requests and address government issues. For example, if the government requests user data from a social media app and the request is legal, the compliance officer must provide the data. The node officer is the one who coordinates with law enforcement agencies if necessary.
The companies have also been asked to involve a dedicated complaints officer who will be responsible for solving the problems of social media users.
WHAT IS THE TOOLKIT CASE?
The new IT rules are not the only thing that Twitter and the center are arguing about.
According to the national spokesman for the BJP Sambit Patra posted a toolkit document on Twitter The Congress party claimed the Indian National Congress created it to defame Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s regime during the second wave of the pandemic, stating the document was forged.
Twitter intervened when it labeled Sambit Patra’s tweet as “rigged media”. After that, the Union’s Department of Electronics and IT wrote a letter to Twitter asking the company to remove the tag.
Delhi police later claimed that the social media giant “claims to be an investigative agency. There is no legal sanction for being one. The only legal person authorized by duly established law to investigate is.” the police.”
The Police also alleged that Twitter is holding back Evidence in the case.
Twitter, on the other hand, called it Police officers in Delhi visit his Delhi office on Tuesday evening as “Police use intimidation tactics in response to enforcement of our global terms of service”.
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