Twitter to comply with New IT rules in India

Twitter on Monday reiterated to comply with the new IT intermediary guidelines in India as the Delhi High Court issued a notice on the plea against the non-compliance by Twitter India and Twitter Inc.

The plea urged the High Court to issue direction to the Centre to pass necessary instruction to Twitter India and Twitter to appoint resident grievance officer under Rule 4 of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Ethics Code) Rules 2021 without any delay, reports yahoo Finance, an American news website.

The High Court issued notice to the Centre and Twitter, seeking their stand on the plea.

A Twitter spokesperson said as stated earlier, the micro-blogging platform strived to comply with applicable law in India.

"We continue to be strictly guided by principles of transparency, a commitment to empowering every voice on the service, and protecting freedom of expression and privacy under the Indian law," the Twitter spokesperson added.

While Facebook, WhatsApp, Google, Telegram, LinkedIn etc. have either fully or partially complied with the new IT rules, Twitter is yet to follow suit.

Twitter last week requested the IT Ministry to consider a minimum of three-month extension for the company to implement the new intermediary guidelines.