Twitter withholds access to Dera chiefs account in India

September 01, 2017 19:28

Twitter has frozen the official account of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the Dera Sacha Sauda chief who has been convicted in two rape cases and sentenced to 20 years in jail.

A search on the micro-blogging site for Ram Rahims accounts returned a message @Gurmeetramrahims account has been withheld in: India.

Twitter explains: In our continuing effort to make our services available to users everywhere, if we receive a valid and properly scoped request from an authorised entity, it may be necessary to reactively withhold access to certain content in a particular country from time to time.

According to Twitter, if Twitterati see a grayed-out user in timeline or elsewhere in Twitter, access to that particular account has been withheld in a particular country, in this case in India.

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