Twitter intensified its assault in Indian Sovereignty by posting a piece of advice for India. It joined hands with WhatsApp which claimed to protect the Indian constitution by filing a case in Delhi High Court to protect the Privacy of Indian Citizen to claim the mantle of “Freedom of Speech”.
Unfortunately Indians understand that Jack Dorsey’s concept of Freedom of Expression is a narrative for regime change in India.
Both Twitter and WhatsApp seem to consider that they are together powerful enough to bring down the Modi Government which the Indian opposition have not been able to do.
In response o the above Tweet, the Meity came up with its own rebuttal with a press release as follows and released it first on Koo.
Copy of the Meity Press release is here
The rebuttal is strong and highlights that Twitter is trying to dictate its terms to the world’s largest democracy and trying to undermine the Indian legal system.
It reiterates that Twitter needs to stop beating around the bush and comply with the laws of the land since law making and policy is the sole prerogative of the sovereign while Twitter is just a social media platform.
It goes on to “Condemn” the Twitter statement as “Unfortunate”, “Baseless”, “False” and an attempt to defame India.
Delhi Police has also released its response to Twitter stating
“We have come across press reports that quote Twitter Inc. statements pertaining to the ongoing inquiry by us. Prima facie, these statements are not only mendacious, but designed to impede a lawful inquiry by a private enterprise. Twitter, being a public platform, must lead in demonstrating transparency in its functioning and should bring clarity into subject matters of public domain. Since the matter has been put in public domain, it’s important to set the record straight on tendentious statement made.”
Police have also accused that “the social media giant is purporting to be an investigating, as well as adjudicating judicial authority but the Police is the only legal entity to investigate, as duly laid down in the law, while courts are the only legal entity that can adjudicate.”
Let us watch how the war launched by Twitter and WhatsApp against India proceeds. Just as the Indian army showed time and again to Pakistan and China that India of today is not the India of yester years, we would like the Indian Government to show both Twitter and WhatsApp that India can do well with Koo and Arattai and we donot need Twitter and WhatsApp.
We hope Twitter gets the message and apologizes for its arrogant narrative. But we urge Indians to start migrating out of Twitter and make it irrelevant.
Naavi
