We respond to valid copyright complaints: Twitter on blocking IT minister's account

Confirming that it had temporarily restricted access to Union Electronics and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasads Twitter account the microblogging platform said on Friday that it was restricted due to a DMCA notice adding that it responds to valid copyright complaintsA Twitter spokesperson also said that the referenced tweet has been withheldWe can confirm that the Honourable Ministers account access was temporarily restricted due to a DMCA notice only and the referenced Tweet has been withheld As per our copyright policy we respond to valid copyright complaints sent to us by a copyright owner or their authorised representatives the spokesperson saidThe response came after the minister called out the USheadquartered company for blocking his account without any prior information calling it a gross violation of IT guidelines by TwitterTaking to Indiamade microblogging platform Koo Prasad said earlier in the day that he was denied access to his Twitter account for almost an hour over alleged violation of the US Digital Millennium Copyright ActTwitters actions were in gross violation of Rule 48 of the Information Technology Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code Rules 2021 where they failed to provide me any prior notice before denying me access to my own account he said in a series of posts on KooPrasad who has been at the forefront of the governments drive to bring in more compliance and stricter norms for social media platforms added It is apparent that my statements calling out the high handedness and arbitrary actions of Twitter particularly sharing the clips of my interviews to TV channels and its powerful impact have clearly ruffled its feathersNo matter what any platform does they will have to abide by the new IT Rules fully and there shall be no compromise on that he addedKoo on the other hand has stood in favour of giving users complete context and intimation of any alleged violationAprameya Radhakrishna CEO amp Cofounder of Koo said Giving a user complete context of any claimed violation and an intimation of the exact violation is important The user should also be able to contest or accept the claimed violationA direct action of suspension without the above makes it seem like a social media platform is taking the final judgement call and is not being an intermediary he addedTwitter has been at loggerheads with the government over the IT guidelines It has also lost its status of intermediary platform in India over noncompliance of the new intermediary guidelinesAs a result of the development the company has lost its legal shield in the country from prosecution over postsThe microblogging platform recently said that it has appointed an interim Chief Compliance Officer as per the new norms and the details of which would be soon shared with the IT Ministry directlyThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever