Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad Friday said that the microblogging platform had denied him access to his account for almost an hour alleging a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the USA.
In a screenshot shared by the Union minister, Twitter informs that his account has been locked following a complaint Digital Millennium Copyright Act Notice for content posted on his account.
Following the message, Twitter allowed him access to the account.
Slamming the move, Prasad said, “Twitter’s actions were in gross violation of Rule 4(8) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 where they failed to provide me any prior notice before denying me access to my own account.”
