Govt blocks Twitter accounts of some journalists

August 23, 2012 12:19

The Union government has stepped up its efforts to stop what it perceives an online campaign of misinformation and rumour-mongering in the wake of Assam riots and has blocked several Twitter accounts, including two belonging to journalists, considered sympathetic to far Right in India.

The blocked accounts include those maintained by Kanchan Gupta, who until a few months ago was with the Pioneer newspaper, and Shiv Aroor, a deputy editor with Headlines Today news channel. More on the Times of India.

Shiv Aroor ‏@ShivAroor My Twitter acct works fine when I log in, but when I try to go to the URL profile on Chrome/IExplorer, it says "blocked". #GOIBlocks

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