Twitter’s response to parliamentary panel over new IT rules

Amid a continuous tussle between Twitter and the central government over various issues, including the new IT rules, Zee Media has got access to the microblogging platform’s reply to the parliamentary panel.

The document has Twitter’s answers to the Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code Rules, 2021, the January 26 Republic Day incident, the Ghaziabad assault video case, and other such issues.

On being asked about its concerns regarding the Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code Rules, 2021, also known as the Digital Media Ethics Rules 2021, said that they are committed to working with democratic governments globally to ensure that regulation of their business and industry is ‘practical, realistic and feasible to implement’.

Twitter stated that along with peer companies, it has via various trade associations including CII, FICCI, USISPF, USIBC, ASSOCHAM, IAMAI and AIC outlined its concerns with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) from April 2021 through May 2021.

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