When Shruti Agrawal retweeted Delhi student activist Gurmehar Kaur's posts on social media , she found herself the target of vicious, obscene messages and rape threats.Reporting the trolls did not work, because many of her abusers were attacking her in Hindi, which evaded Twitter 's filtering process. In another incident, a well-known journalist from Chennai was targeted when she tweeted that she did not find Tamil actor Vijay's latest movie interesting. She was soon at the receiving end of more than 45,000 derogatory tweets, many of them in Tamil. This way they cir cumvent filters set to monitor English language content. "We have recommended that the ministry engage with social media service providers to identify any groups that violate their usage policy .

Source: Times of India August 20, 2017 00:11 UTC