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Twitter is the cop looking the other way
Updated On: 10 November, 2019 07:05 AM IST | Mumbai | Gaurav Sarkar
Senior SC advocate Sanjay Hegde, who slapped a legal notice on Twitter India for suspending his account twice, explains his problem with the policing
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It hasn't been a pleasant fortnight for Twitter India. The micro-blogging website has been called out for playing favourites, turning a blind eye to right wing hate speech and suspending the accounts of those who dissent on the platform.
It all started when Twitter temporarily suspended Supreme Court lawyer Sanjay Hegde's account on October 26, over his cover photo of German national, August Landmesser, refusing to give the Nazi salute to Hitler. Once Hegde had removed the image, his account was restored, only to be suspended a day later. This time, it was over a 2017 tweet by journalist Kavita Krishnan that he had shared, which had Gorakh Pandey's poem Usko Phaansi Do. Krishnan's original post, however, continues to remain on the platform.
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