A
high-level government review committee has given its stamp of approval
on a decision to block 306 accounts being used on micro-blogging site
Twitter in the wake of communal violence in Assam's Kokrajhar district
and largescale migration of people from the South.
These
accounts, according to the review committee, had the potential to
inflame communal tension in the country and some morphed pictures were
uploaded that had led to clashes in some parts of the country.
Secretary
of department of electronics and information technology (DeitY) told
the review committee comprising cabinet secretary Ajit Seth, telecom
secretary R Chandrasekhar and legal affairs secretary B A Agarwal that
he had held a meeting with representatives of Google, Twitter and
Facebook and asked them to provide details of the up-loaders of
"objectionable" contents.
However, none of
them provided any details, the DeitY was quoted as saying in the minutes
of the meeting held recently in the Cabinet Secretariat.
The
committee was reviewing the 310 Twitter and Facebook accounts that were
blocked after the communal clashes in Kokrajhar in Assam. Following
these clashes, migration of Northeast residents was witnessed from
Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Lucknow and Patna.
The
government has been alleging some mischievous elements were using the
social networking sites for fomenting communal tension and had also
issued an advisory asking the websites to remove the such inflammatory
pictures or articles.
"However, such
inflammatory and harmful contents continued to appear on the social
networking sites despite the advisory and the request made by DeitY,"
the meeting noted.
Via[TechGig]
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