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Twitter and other social media systems need to make certain that they are not abused to spread terrorism and extremism, Telecom and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad Tuesday said, as he counseled India is “sittingwithin the midst of a mini-terrorist hub”.
Prasad met Twitter global coverage Head Colin Crowell and discussed problems around utilization of social media, security and privacy in addition to geographical illustration of Jammu on the microblogging platform.
“I flagged one important difficulty to him, specifically that even as we absolutely welcome social media, we admire freedom of speech and expression, however Twitter additionally desires to ensure this cuteplatform isn’t abused for terrorism and extremism,” he instructed reporters after the assembly.
“… but humans do abuse this platform and that care should be taken… India is sitting in the midst of a mini terrorist hub and faces this hazard, he (Crowell) mentioned this hassle. In truth he also said that Twittereliminated more than 1,00,000 entries due to this,” he said.
The minister additionally stated the issue of representing Jammu as part of Pakistan was additionallydiscussed.
“I formally communicated our deep sense of dismay and disapproval on this. A greater sensitivity needs to be proven through those structures as a ways as our geographical identification and integrity isinvolved,” he stated.
Twitter made a fake pas in its location-tagging carrier that confirmed Jammu as a part of Pakistan and J&ok being in China.
a number of Twitter customers criticised Twitter for the goof-up with some terming it being biased in opposition to India. except, the minister additionally invited the usa–based company to take part in India’s virtual literacy programme.
Twitter will unveiled ‘Twitter for excellent‘ programme in India later this week to assist provide relief in case of natural screw ups.
in line with assets, the dialogue additionally blanketed the issue of presidency requests for sharingusers‘ facts, like in the case of Apple and there has been a consensus that there is a scope of greaterengagement.
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