2023-06-30 14:35:24
An Indian court has thrown out an appeal by Twitter against an order to remove content critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and ordered the social network to pay $61,000. This court decision was made a few weeks after the former CEO of the social network, Jack Dorsey, said that the authorities had threatened to “close Twitter in India” and search the homes of its employees if they did not comply with the request. to remove content.
The Supreme Court of the state of Karnataka, where Twitter is headquartered in India, dismissed the appeal for “lack of merit” and ordered Twitter to pay five million rupees ($61,000), reported the judicial news portal LiveLaw. .
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Dorsey, who is one of the co-founders of the social network and left the position of CEO in 2021, stated that during the period that he was in charge of the company, he received constant pressure from the Indian authorities.
The authorities of the Asian country regularly resort to blocking the internet when riots occur, and in 2019 they imposed a four-month cutoff in the Kashmir region, disputed with Pakistan, during a security operation.
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