The government serves an ultimatum: it’s time to run out for Twitter in India?

Does Twitter pushes his luck too far in India? This is a question that is more and more requested when the Indian government has served “one last opinion” after the microblogging platform has continued to remain non-compliant with the new IT rules that have been launched at the late last month.

The bone of the conflict is the appointment of the grievance officer as mandated by the law of the country.

Twitter seemed to have named a person last week and we pointed out as much, but it turns out that the person named for this role is not a full-time employee.

And the Indian government seems to have missed with Twitter and he slapped “one last opinion” on this subject to immediately comply with the new IT rules and warned that not doing so will result in the platform to lose a Indemnity of responsibility under the computer law.

“Grievance officer named not a Twitter employee”

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) in this opinion stated that this had been more than one week since the new rules came into force, but Twitter refused to comply with the provisions these rules.

“It is clear from the answers until Twitter did not inform Twitter about the details of the officer of chief compliance according to the rules,” said the ministry’s opinion. In addition, the Resident Grievance Officer and the named Nodal contact person is not a Twitter Employee Inc. in India, as indicated in the Regulations, he added.

The refusal of Twitter to follow the rules demonstrates a “lack of commitment to a safe experience to the population of India,” said the government in the notification addressed to Jim Baker, Deputy General Counsel.