{"id":330813,"date":"2021-02-03T10:53:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T10:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330813"},"modified":"2021-02-03T10:53:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T10:53:31","slug":"govt-notice-to-twitter-on-farmer-genocide-hashtag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/govt-notice-to-twitter-on-farmer-genocide-hashtag\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt notice to Twitter on \u2018Farmer Genocide\u2019 hashtag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-300154 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/twitter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/twitter.jpg 613w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/twitter-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/twitter-492x420.jpg 492w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/>The Government has issued notice to Twitter to comply with its order to remove contents\/accounts related to farmer genocide, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Centre said that users are posting content with the hashtags-#ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide on Twitter which was designed to inflame passions, hatred and factually incorrect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;This is a motivated campaign to abuse and create tension in society on unsubstantiated grounds,&#8221; the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the statement, Twitter may face penal action for not complying with the orders of the government. Twitter had unilaterally unblocked accounts and tweets despite the government order.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Twitter being an intermediary is obliged to obey the directions as per satisfaction of authorities as to which inflammatory content will arouse passion and impact public order. Twitter cannot sit as an appellate authority over the satisfaction of the authorities about its potential impact on derailing public order,&#8221; it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Around 250 tweets\/Twitter accounts were recently blocked for tweeting \u2018fake, intimidatory and provocative tweets\u2019 with the #ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide hashtag.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government has issued notice to Twitter to comply with its order to remove contents\/accounts related to farmer genocide, sources said. The Centre said that users are posting content with the hashtags-#ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide on Twitter which was designed to inflame passions, hatred and factually incorrect. &#8220;This is a motivated campaign to abuse and create tension in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":300154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[259,605],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330815,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330813\/revisions\/330815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}