The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology ordered Twitter to ban 2,851 URLs or unified resource locators in 2021 and 1,122 till June this year under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
According to data shared by Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the IT ministry’s orders to ban Twitter URLs have been steadily increasing since 2014.
The number of blocked URLs climbed from 8 in 2014 to 15 in 2015, 194 in 2016, and 588 in 2017 before declining to 225 in 2018. The government blocked 1,041 URLs in 2019. The number increased to 2,731 in 2020 and 2,851 in 2021.
Chandrasekhar said, “Section 69A of the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000 empowers the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to block information in any computer resource in the interest of sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of the state, friendly relations with foreign states or public order or for preventing incitement to the commission of any cognizable offence relating to above.”
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