NEW DELHI — Twitter on Thursday pushed back against India’s increasingly heavy-handed efforts to police online speech, calling on the government there to respect freedom of expression and criticizing what it called “intimidation tactics” by the country’s police. In a statement, the San Francisco-based social media service said it planned to push leaders in India to change regulations that have given the authorities greater say over online media and internet platforms. “Right now, we are concerned by recent events regarding our employees in India and the potential threat to freedom of expression for the people we serve,” the statement read. Citing new information technology rules that the government has implemented, it added that “we, alongside many in civil society in India and around the world, have concerns with regards to the use of intimidation tactics by the police in response to enforcement of our global terms of service, as well as with core elements of the new IT rules.”

Source: New York Times May 27, 2021 06:45 UTC