India: lawsuit against Twitter after the distribution of a map of an independent Kashmir
In India, police have initiated preliminary charges against senior Indian Twitter officials.
Olivier DOULIERY AFP / File
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In India, nothing works between Twitter and the government.
This Tuesday, June 29, the police initiated preliminary proceedings against senior Indian officials of the American company: a nationalist group complained after the publication on Twitter of a map showing the region of Kashmir, disputed between India and Pakistan, as an independent state.
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This act hurt the feelings of Indians,
" complained the leader of a Hindu nationalist group in Uttar Pradesh who lodged a complaint.
The director of Twitter in India is now, along with another official, the subject of an investigation for violating laws on information technology and causing public disturbance, police said.
Kashmir is, as we know, a sensitive issue, but this incident occurs especially when relations between Twitter and the Indian government have been very tense for several months, around new regulations forcing social networks operating in India to remove everything. message considered threatening for public order and security of the country, and to go back to the first authors of these posts.
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The American company as well as privacy advocates fear that this law will allow the government to identify the authors of messages criticizing it.
But if social networks do not comply with the new rules, New Delhi threatens to withdraw the legal protection given to intermediaries.
Twitter could therefore be sued for content posted by its users.
Last week, the director of Twitter in India escaped arrest during a first complaint.
Local police appealed.
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