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Govt's ultimatum to Twitter: Block offending pages or face action

The Indian Government has given an ultimatum to social networking site Twitter to block nearly 30 of its webpages which continue to host morphed and inflammatory contents or face punitive action.

FP Archives|Aug 23, 2012, 12:31:32 IST

New Delhi: The Indian Government has given an ultimatum to social networking site Twitter to block nearly 30 of its webpages which continue to host morphed and inflammatory contents or face punitive action.The move comes after Union Home Secretary R K Singh asked the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEIT) to serve the ultimatum on Twitter as it failed to comply with the government order to block 28 webpages in its site.Singh told DEIT to take appropriate action if the offending webpages are not blocked immediately by Twitter.[caption id="attachment_427439" align="alignleft" width="380"] Twitter could face punitive action. AFP[/caption]Government had already ordered blocking of 310 webpages where morphed and inflammatory content was uploaded with the aim to incite Muslims in India leading to the mass exodus of people of the Northeastern region from places in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra.PTI

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CJP protest in Delhi: New videos of stone pelting, violence emerge as police, agitators trade charges

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PM Modi announces fast-track courts for paper leak cases; CJP responds ‘Dharmendra Pradhan must go’

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