Twitter loses "safe harbor" status in India
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https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/06/twitter-has-lost-liability-protection-in-india-government-says/
Twitter no longer enjoys the liability protection against user-generated content in India, the government said in a court filing this week as tension escalates between the two over the South Asian nation’s new IT rules.
In a court filing on Monday, New Delhi said Twitter has lost its immunity in India after the American social network failed to comply with the new local IT rules, which were unveiled in February and went into effect in late May.
Experts have said in recent weeks that the Indian court — and not the Indian government — holds the power to decide whether Twitter gets to keep its safe harbor protections in the world’s second largest internet market.
Internet services enjoy what is broadly referred to as “safe harbor” protection that say that tech platforms won’t be held liable for the things their users post or share online. If you insult someone on Twitter, for example, the company may be asked to take down your post (if the person you have insulted has approached the court and a takedown order has been issued) but it likely won’t be held legally responsible for what you said or did.
Without the protection, Twitter — which according to mobile insight firm App Annie, has over 100 million users in India — is on paper responsible for everything those users say on its platform.
Interesting....
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Pretty much kills a lot of their content, I'm guessing...
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@jolly said in Twitter loses "safe harbor" status in India:
Pretty much kills a lot of their content, I'm guessing...
That was most likely the idea.
I get the feeling that Mr. Modi doesn't much like 'negative speech'.
