Twitter Bans Over 57,000 Accounts for Promoting Child Porn, Nudity in India

New Delhi, Oct 1: Coping with an unlimited controversy over the proliferation of child pornography on its platform in India, Twitter acknowledged on Saturday that it banned 57,643 accounts in the nation for promoting toddler sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity and allied content material materials between July 26 and August 25.

Earlier this week, Delhi Charge for Girls chairperson Swati Maliwal had acknowledged the replies acquired from Twitter in the child pornography complaints had been incomplete and the Charge was not glad with them.

Maliwal had on September 20 summoned Twitter India Protection Head and Delhi Police over tweets depicting toddler pornography and rape motion pictures of ladies and youngsters on the micro-blogging platform. WhatsApp Bans Over 23.28 Lakh Indian Accounts in August 2022.

Taking suo moto cognisance of various tweets openly depicting motion pictures and photos of sexual acts involving kids, the Charge acknowledged that most of the tweets portrayed kids completely naked and plenty of of them moreover depicted brutal rape and completely different non-consensual sexual actions with kids and ladies.

Twitter, in its month-to-month report in compliance with the model new IT Pointers, 2021, moreover acknowledged that it acquired 1,088 complaints from prospects in India in the equivalent timeframe by its grievance redressal mechanisms.

Showing on the complaints, the company took movement in opposition to 41 URLs.

In addition to, “we processed 76 grievances which were appealing Twitter account suspensions. These were all resolved and the appropriate responses were sent”, acknowledged the company. UP Freeway Accident: At Least 10 Killed, A Dozen Injured As Tractor-Trolley Carrying Pilgrims Overturns in Kanpur, PM Narendra Modi Pronounces Ex-Gratia.

“We overturned none of these account suspensions after reviewing the specifics of the situation,” it added.

Twitter moreover acquired 15 requests related to regular questions on accounts all through this reporting interval.

The company acknowledged it “does not tolerate any material that features or promotes child sexual exploitation — whether in Direct Messages or elsewhere throughout the service”.

In India, the purchasers complained primarily essentially the most about online abuse and harassment (544) and hateful conduct (502), amongst completely different courses.

Within the meantime, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk this week expressed grave concerns over tales regarding the presence of tweets soliciting toddler pornography on Twitter.

Reacting to a report on how most important selling producers have pulled out from Twitter as their promotion posts appeared alongside toddler porn tweets, Musk acknowledged: “Extremely concerning.”