Parliamentary panel grills Twitter over ‘obscene’ tweets by Kunal Kamra targeting SC, CJI
New Delhi: A parliamentary committee questioned Twitter on Thursday over the latest “obscene” tweets by humorist Kunal Kamra focusing on the Supreme Court and the Chief Justice of India (CJI), and sought reply from the social media large over the matter inside seven days, mentioned the panel’s chairperson Meenakshi Lekhi.
This got here shut on the heels of Twitter apologising in writing to the identical parliamentary panel for wrongly exhibiting Ladakh in China and promising to right the error by the month-end.
Twitter India representatives deposed earlier than the Joint Committee of Parliament on Data Protection Bill on Thursday. “It is shameful that Twitter is allowing its platform for obscene remarks like the one by stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra against the Supreme Court and the CJI,” Lekhi instructed reporters.
“Twitter is allowing its platform to be misused for abusing top constitutional authorities, such as the Supreme Court and CJI. When Twitter was asked that what kind of posts are removed, it said that when the vulgar terminology is used, such posts are deleted. We then asked why the post of Kunal Kamra was not removed and they said that the court order has not come to us. We asked if they need an order to remove the other posts? We asked what is your authority and sought a reply on this within 7 days,” Lekhi mentioned.
She mentioned members of the committee throughout the political spectrum, together with Congress MP Vivek Tankha, BSP MP Ritesh Pandey and BJD MP Bhatruhari Mahtab, grilled Twitter representatives on this situation.
Lekhi additionally mentioned that rationalization of Twitter about banning handles and tweets was discovered to be insufficient.
Meanwhile, Kamra has refused to retract his controversial tweets towards the Supreme Court or apologise for them, saying he believes they “speak for themselves”.
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Earlier, Attorney General Okay Okay Venugopal consented to the initiation of legal contempt proceedings towards him for a collection of tweets following the apex courtroom giving interim bail to Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami.
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