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#Breaking | Union #ITMinister Ravi Shankar Prasad's #Twitter account blacked out for over an hour; 'action' under Copyright Act of #America. #Govt takes objection.

#Breaking | In a series of posts on #Koo app, Union #ITMinister @rsprasad informed that Twitter blacked out his account for over an hour. 'Twitter denied access to my account on the alleged ground that there was a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the USA.'

@rsprasad #NewsUpdate | Union #ITMinister Ravi Shankar Prasad's #Twitter account blacked out for over an hour.

Union Minister tweets saying, 'No matter what any platform does they will have to abide by the new #IT Rules fully and there shall be no compromise on that'.

@rsprasad #NewsUpdate | Congress' #JaiveerShergill reacts on Twitter blocking Union #ITMinister Ravi Shankar Prasad's #Twitter account for over an hour; says, 'imagine plight of farmers who have been denied access to their MSP account for lifetime by Law Ministry via 3 black farm laws!!'

I am not surprised by #Twitter's action because that is the way how it operates -- arbitrary, totally anarchist organization driven by algorithms: @TVMohandasPai.

#Twitter has abrogated to itself not the position of an intermediary, it abrogated to itself the position of a 'super editor': @Shehzad_Ind, Political Analyst.

@rsprasad #NewsUpdate | Shiv Sena's #PriyankaChaturvedi reacts saying, 'It has happened to my verified FB page wrt TV debates. I had also raised this copyright issue in the dept related Committee meeting. Unfortunately, it only pinches when it hits home'.

@rsprasad #NewsUpdate | #ShashiTharoor reacts on Twitter's action against Union #ITMinister saying, 'I won't blame @Twitter for this action or attribute the motives to them that IT Minister does, though it wasn't pleasant finding my account locked'.

@rsprasad @Twitter #NewsUpdate | #ShivSena's #PriyankaChaturvedi cites one of the rules of #IT guidelines in connection with #Twitter's action against #ITMinister saying, 'IT Minister please look at the issue rather than political narrative'.