Agree with Dorsey on Twitter clampdown: Tikait

June 13, 2023 11:16

Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait reacts to former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's claim on 'pressure' from India during the farmer protests. "We had information that the kind of reach on Facebook and Twitter that was expected on farmers' protest, was not coming. They used to try to stop it at their level. The Head (former CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey) has said this clearly now. But such companies don't come under anyone's pressure. Govt of India must have made such attempts...What he said is correct."

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a stunning allegation claimed that the micro-blogging platform had faced government pressure and threats of shutdown during farmers' protest, a statement that evoked a sharp rebuttal from Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar who termed it an "outright lie".

Rubbishing the claims, the Minister of State for IT tweeted that Dorsey's Twitter regime "had a problem accepting the sovereignty of Indian law". "No one went to jail nor was twitter `shutdown'," Chandrasekhar said.

Jack Dorsey has alleged that during the farmers' protest the Indian government pressurised the microblogging platform and threatened to shut down Twitter in India, raid the homes of employees if it didn't listen to what was being told.

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