Twitter Inc. has agreed to review India's request to remove a number of micro-blogging accounts pretending to be of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a spokesman in the Prime Minister's Office said Thursday.
The Prime Minister's Office had complained to Twitter that these accounts were misrepresenting the Prime Minister, impersonating his office and loading material that was allegedly inciting communal tensions. When Twitter didn't respond, Indian authorities unilaterally blocked six Twitter handles.
"Now Twitter has emailed to us that they will review our requests and they will be in touch with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology about this matter," Pankaj Pachauri said in an emailed statement.
The development comes amid attempts by New Delhi to clamp down on material carried on the Internet that it says has exacerbated ethnic tensions.
The issue has gained urgency as an ongoing conflict over land in the northeastern state of Assam has caused almost 80 deaths. Northeasterners settled all over India returned home last week following rumors that they would be attacked in retaliation for the violence.
Twitter as well as with Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have been asked by the government to remove "inflammatory and hateful content" from their websites.
Google and Facebook said they were cooperating with India to remove such images. Microsoft didn't reply to queries on its response.
Source: http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=475846
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