Social Crackdown: Government versus Social Media Giants - Page 3

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Twitter loses legal indemnity

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Originally posted by: vijay

I would like to further the point that Armu4Eva is trying to make that all companies operating in India and having offices in India should follow Indian Law. Privacy and Freedom of expression is important but at the same time National Security is also important.

I will share what I broadly think on the issue and I have limited knowledge and understanding on the same.

Basic premise is that Social media is HUGE and today the central hub for dissemination of all kinds of information/misinformation and any misuse of which can really create havoc and endanger people. So there has to be checks and balances in place to counter these things in a timely manner. Some things the platform themselves do take care of but there are times where these platforms do exercise their power to influence based on their biases and on others.

People are mixing too many things like banning, privacy breach, freedom of expression etc.

Letter to Social media sites

All significant social media sites which has over 5 million registered users having office and operating in India should provide the following:

a) Chief Compliance Officer contact etc, whom should the government agencies contact in case there is a compliance issue.

b) All reports should be handled in a timely manner. It includes certain content that is in violation of Indian Law should be taken down.

Regarding the WhatsApp case:

With regards to WhatsApp legal issue Government is not asking to share what two people are talking needs to be shared.

In the event there is some fake news / video that has gone viral on WhatsApp and government needs assistance in terms of identifying the originator of that message. To which WhatsApp is saying that it is not possible due to their both-side encryption and stuff.

Well and as much I understand its not that difficult given WhatsApp anyway understands which message is being "forwarded many times" without hampering both side encryption or privacy. WhatsApp just need to give the phone number or the IP Address of the originator. Which most of the social media sites already does if they get a formal request from the agencies.

Regarding Twitter controversy:

Well controversy and twitter is nothing new and its a known fact that Twitter has a left-leaning bias which their CEO has admitted on record.

Coming to the "Manipulated Media" tag that has been put up by Twitter on certain tweets for which the Delhi police is chasing them to share the proof based on which they marked it as "manipulated" and this has created the furore on both sides.

However my limited point on this is that it was wrong one Twitter part to mark it as such without sharing any detail on why and how it came to that conclusion.

BTW I am not contesting Twitter's power to de-platform any user or delete any post as per their terms of use as its a private company. May be if they had tagged it saying: "Contents in Dispute" with the link to the FIR copy it would have been much better.

Dear vijay sir, i am glad you acknowleged twitter's left leaning bias but i would be equally happy if you do the same when it comes to your own portal's bias towards left. Have a look around and you will find not many right leaning voices left on here. Pick any thread discussing politics and religion in bollywood forum which ultimayely gets dumped in debate forum and you will come across mainly pro pak, pro muslim, anti gov n hinduphobic contents. You had appointed mods with leftist mindset in the most happening forum and see the results! Most people have left or reduced the activity due to blatantly biased moderation. All left leaning newbies blend in very easily with existing members but none from right are allowed to continue. They are instantly banned. As per IF rules celebs are not to be namecalled or abused but kangna and MODI are fair games.

There is this thread on 2nd page of this forum tited " US refuses sending raw material for vaccine" ...where a member named sharmajikaladka called modi a DOG on pg 8...it is still there . Your mods keep hawk's eyes on political threads so i am sure it wouldn't have gone unnoticed. The same mods ban members for calling shahrulh khan hakla😆. ..

Currently there is a hot topic namely boycottkareena in bollywood forum where rampant bhakt bashing going on. But the moment someone calls out jihadis or khalistanis, the comments are removed instantly and the person gets banned without warning. I am sure you are aware of the functioning of your own portal. Your own portal supresses right leaning voices which puts even twitter to shame. Chexk that thread in bolly forum to see how many of them rightists or neutrals are left on this very portal. Maybe one or two?😆 are you going to do something about it or let mods ruin that forum also like they did with debate mension with their biased and discriminatory attitude? People call your portal Anti- Indiaforum for a reason. No kidding.