Government and Twitter are at loggerheads over the seeming refusal of the microblogging site to agree to changed information technology rules.
The tussle is not without irony and contradictions: when the Modi government decided to withdraw Twitter’s safe harbour status, IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad argued for the decision in a Twitter post first. Prasad was only following what is now standard operating procedure for those in public life: using Twitter for quick one-way communication. For the last few years, for government officials and politicians, Twitter has become a first information report, and for journalists a news wire service.
Uday Deb
Twitter is extremely convenient for politicians. In the older method of communication – the press conference – governing party and opposition faced Read More
