'Ban Twitter in India,' Kangana Ranaut posts on Twitter

 

MUMBAI: Bollywood 'queen' Kangana Ranaut, who has established herself as one of the chiefest keyboard warriors in India, has now urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ban micro-blogging platform Twitter in India.

 

"Honourable Prime Minister ji jo galti Great warrior Prithaviraj Chauhan ji ne ki thi woh bilkul mat karna .... uss galti ka naam tha maafi...

 

" data-focusable="true">@Twitter kitni bhi maafi mange bilkul maaf mat karna. They conspired for a civil war in India," Ranaut wrote in a tweet, along with the hastag '

 

data-focusable="true">#BanTwitterInIndia.," Ranaut said in a tweet.

 

 

In order to prevent the spread of misinformation and inflammatory content around farmers’ protests, Twitter on Wednesday suspended over 500 accounts and blocked access to several others within the country following an order issued by the Indian government.

 

However, accounts of “news media entities, journalists, activists and politicians” has not been blocked as doing so “would violate their fundamental right to free expression” guaranteed under the law of the country, Twitter said in a statement.

 

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Amid the ongoing controversy with the micro-blogging platform Twitter, several Central government officials have started shifting towards the homegrown alternative - the Koo app.

 

Union Ministers including Ravi Shankar Prasad, Piyush Goyal and Smriti Irani have already joined the Koo platform.

 

Comparing the “action taken by Twitter during the Capitol Hill episode and… the disturbance in Red Fort”, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Wednesday “expressed strong displeasure” to Twitter at what it called its “differential treatment”.

 

“A deep sense of disappointment at seeing Twitter side not with ‘freedom of expression’ but rather with those who seek to abuse such freedom and provoke disturbance to public order, was conveyed to the Twitter representative,” the ministry said in a strongly-worded statement.