The Union Government issued an Ultimatum to Social Networking Site Twitter

Aug 23, 2012, 15:25 IST

India Current Affairs August 2012. The DEIT (Department of Electronics and Information Technology) on 21 August 2012 issued an ultimatum to social networking site Twitter to block nearly 30 of its WebPages

The DEIT (Department of Electronics and Information Technology) on 21 August 2012 issued an ultimatum to social networking site Twitter to block nearly 30 of its WebPages, which continue to host morphed and inflammatory content or face punitive action. The government served the ultimatum on Twitter as it failed to comply with the government order to block 28 web-pages on its site.

Government had already ordered blocking of 310 webpages, which showed morphed and inflammatory contents which allegedly incited Muslims in India against people of the Northeastern region resulting in to the mass exodus of the latter from places in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka,  Karnataka and Maharashtra.

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