Twitter banned more than 46,000 Indian accounts in May 2022. See all the details here.
Twitter has banned tens of thousands of accounts in India! Twitter itself reported this in its monthly compliance report. The statement indicated that more than 46,000 Indian Twitter accounts were banned in May 2022. Twitter reportedly removed these accounts for violating its guidelines. The data shows that about 43,656 accounts have been banned by Twitter for advertising child sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity and similar content. While the rest of the 2,870 Twitter accounts of Indian users have been banned for terrorist advertising. So to ensure that a similar ban is not placed on you, never post any such material.
Twitter said in its report, “While we welcome people to express themselves on our platform, we do not tolerate harassment, intimidation, demeaning or the use of fear to silence the voices of others.” It further clarifies that it does not tolerate any material containing or inciting sexual exploitation of children, whether it is shared in a Direct Message or a public tweet in any form. , text, illustrations, or computer-generated images.
Twitter account banned in India due to complaint
Twitter says it received approximately 1,698 complaints in India between April 26 and May 25, 2022, through Twitter’s local complaints mechanism. The reasons Twitter gave for removing accounts ranged from online abuse or harassment, hateful behavior, misinformation and manipulated media, impersonation, URLs that violate the rules rules regarding online harassment and hateful behavior for sensitive adult content. Each user complaint received through the Complaints India channel has been evaluated against Twitter’s Terms of Service and rules to see if any content was determined to be in violation of the guidelines.
Not just Twitter, in May, Google also removed 393,303 pieces of bad content to prevent the spread of harmful content, including child sexual abuse and violent extremist content. While, a few days ago, your daily instant messaging app WhatsApp issued a ban on over 19k Indian user accounts in May.
