Twitter blocked the handle of IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for an hour on Friday morning. The reason for this was stated that they violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of America. However, Twitter later reopened the handle of Ravi Shankar Prasad, giving a warning. Ravi Shankar Prasad has shared this information first through indigenous microblogging and social networking site Koo and then through Twitter.
After the matter came to light, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said that this has happened to him before. Tharoor is also the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology. He said that being the chairman of this committee, I can say that we will seek answers from Twitter India regarding the rules and procedures to be followed by Ravi Shankar Prasad and my account locking and operations in India.
Tharoor tweeted, “As the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, I can say that we would like to inform Ravi Shankar Prasad from Twitter India and my accounts and the rules and procedures to be followed by him while operating in India. Will ask for clarification.
Tharoor said, Indians creatively make videos using short passages of foreign music. Instead of letting the clip increase the popularity of their song, the copyright holders have issued notices. The special thing is that the complainant in this case is the International Association of Phonographic Industry. Sony Music’s rights are available to Rasputin. Ironically, at their last conference in India, I was the keynote speaker!
In fact, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad tweeted on Friday and said, “Something very unique happened to me today. Twitter denied access to my account for about an hour on the alleged grounds that there was a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the United States and later allowed me access to the account.
Prasad said, “Twitter’s action was in gross violation of Rule 4(8) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Code of Conduct) Rules 2021, where they provide me any prior notice before denying me access to my own account. failed to do.”
