Twitter banned more than 50 thousand Indian accounts

Twitter banned 52,141 Indian accounts promoting content such as child sexual abuse and nudity between August 26 and September 25. The micro-blogging platform which has now been bought by Elon Musk also removed 1,982 accounts on its platform promoting terrorism in the country.

Twitter, in its monthly report submitted under the new IT Rules, 2021, said that it received 157 complaints from Indian users through its grievance redressal mechanism in a single time-line and 129 of those URLs were processed. In addition, the company acted on 43 complaints appealing for the suspension of the Twitter account. Twitter said all these were resolved and appropriate responses were sent.

The company said that after reviewing the specifics of the situation, we did not revoke the suspension of any of these accounts. All accounts are suspended. We also received 12 requests for general questions about Twitter accounts during this reporting period.

Last month, Delhi Commission for Women chairperson Swati Maliwal had said that Twitter's responses to complaints of child pornographic content were incomplete and the commission was not satisfied with them. Maliwal had on September 20 summoned the Twitter India Policy Head and Delhi Police over tweets showing pornographic content and rape videos on the micro-blogging platform involving women and children. Taking suo motu cognizance of several tweets that openly depicted videos and pictures of sexual acts involving children, the commission said that most of the tweets depicted children completely naked and many of them included children and women.

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