File photograph of MJP MP Tejasvi Surya.
Surya’s tweet is one among 121 tweets which have been requested to be faraway from Twitter.
- News18.com
- Last Updated: May 8, 2020, 8:09 PM IST
In an obvious try and sanitise the social media platform, the Indian authorities has requested microblogging website Twitter to take away 121 objectionable tweets from the positioning. Among them is a 2015 tweet by BJP’s Bengaluru MP Tejasvi Surya linking terrorism to Islam.
The tweet in query was posted in 2015 earlier than Surya received elected because the youngest member of Parliament within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. In the tweet, Surya had written, “In short: true, terror has no religion. But the terrorist definitely has a religion, and in most cases, it’s Islam”.
The incendiary tweet has reportedly been requested to be withheld from the platform by the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY).
Surya, who has been deemed a rising star inside social gathering ranks, due to his dedication to the right-wing ethos and big fan following and join amongst younger voters, is thought to be a favorite amongst social gathering leaders who handpicked him for the influential Bengaluru South seat. However, it appears the social gathering now needs to wash up Surya’s pre-Parliament years.
As per a report in Times Nows, the request was made on April 28 beneath Section 69A of the Information Technology (IT) Act.
Surya’s tweet is one among 121 tweets which have been requested to be faraway from Twitter. As per a report in The Wire, the IT Ministry reported sends out lists of tweets and content material it needs the platform to dam. These principally embrace tweets that criticise the federal government’s stance on Kashmir or are allegedly pro-Pakistan in nature.
The incident got here surfaced after the third-party database that Twitter works with to document removals made its knowledge public. The Lumen database is run by the Berkman Klein Centre of Harvard University and works as a platform to compile this sort of request made by Twitter and Google.
This is just not the primary time that Surya’s controversial views have induced him flak. Previously, Surya’s sexist tweet mocking Arab girls induced outrage. He can also be identified to place forth aggressive right-wing views in rallies and on social media.
In 2018, he tweeted that BJP ought to be a celebration solely for Hindus. The MP has usually talked a few Hindu nation.
The information comes inside days of social media observers noting that right-wing influencers similar to filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri had been deleting their outdated and controversial tweets from the microblogging website.
