Irrational decision taken by the PMO
Updated On: 23 August, 2012 08:08 AM IST | | MiD DAY Correspondent
Not long after the Prime Minister's Office complained to Twitter about objectionable content on six accounts resembling the PMO's official account, the social networking behemoth promised to cooperate.
Not long after the Prime Minister’s Office complained to Twitter about objectionable content on six accounts resembling the PMO’s official account, the social networking behemoth promised to cooperate. It reportedly agreed to ‘actively review’ the request and ‘locate the unlawful content and the specific unlawful tweet.’ A press release also referred to India being important to the company, which is why it would ‘like to have clearer communication in these matters in future.’
Yesterday, an enterprising soul put together a graphical representation analysing the list of sites blocked for hosting content that was referred to as communal. 33 per cent of entries referred to Facebook, 27.8 per cent to YouTube, 9.7 per cent to Twitter, 3.6 per cent to Blogspot and 2.6 per cent to Wordpress. The remaining 23.3 per cent of the pie was taken up by everything from Al Jazeera.com and Defence.pk to Wikipedia.org, CentreRight.in and JihadWatch.org.


