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Not quite the offending hashtag is: "#ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide" So this is the government tamping down language which they deem destructive to them, particu
by jariel 6y ago
Not quite the offending hashtag is:
"#ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide"
So this is the government tamping down language which they deem destructive to them, particularly, one individual i.e. Modi.
It remains to be seen if 'genocide' used in any other context would elicit a take-down order.
- perryizgr8 6y ago> So this is the government tamping down language which they deem destructive to them, particularly, one individual i.e. Modi. But it's not the government "ordering" anything, it's the court. That's the inaccuracy. Court is totally separate from the government.
- webmobdev 6y agoIt is the government that has requested the court to act: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Sunday had sought "emergency blocking of 257 URLs and 1 Hashtag under section 69 A of the Information Technology Act," as per an official statement,
- perryizgr8 6y agoYou're right, I don't know why I thought this was a court order.