Remove Tweets, Accounts Related to 'Farmer Genocide' Hashtag or Face Penal Action, Govt Warns Twitter The central govern...

Remove Tweets, Accounts Related to 'Farmer Genocide' Hashtag or Face Penal Action, Govt Warns Twitter

The central government has issued a notice to the Twitter for reinstating a number of accounts posting about ‘farmer genocide’ despite the IT Ministry directive to block these and has warned of consequences if the accounts are not taken down again.

Twitter had unilaterally reinstated several accounts, including those that posted with the hashtag #ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide Hashtag, on Monday night after blocking them earlier in the day on the government’s instructions.

In its notice, the government has told the social media site that Twitter is an intermediary and they are obliged to obey directions of the government, and the refusal to do so will invite penal action.

The content posted with the inflammatory hashtag was designed to inflame passions, hatred, create tensions in the society and was factually incorrect, the government said, adding that “incitement to genocide is not freedom of speech, but a threat to law and order”.