The Central government on Monday informed the Delhi High Court that micro-blogging site Twitter has failed to comply with India’s law regulating tech companies rendering their services as ‘intermediaries’. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity), in an affidavit filed before the high court, stated that despite three months time being granted to all Significant Social Media Intermediaries (SSMIs) to comply with the Information Technology (IT) Rules 2021, Twitter has failed to fully comply with the same. Twitter, last week, had informed the high court that the interim Resident Grievance Officer and the interim Nodal Contact Person in India had resigned from their positions in June. “The IT Rules, 2021 are the law of the land and Respondent No. The petition said that from February 25, 2021 the Information Technology Rules 2021 have come into effect and the Centre had given three months’ time to every significant social media intermediary to comply with the Rules.

Source: The Hindu July 05, 2021 12:56 UTC