In what way is what Tejasvi Surya said false?
“Modi government requests Twitter to withhold Tejasvi Surya’s ‘Terror and Islam’ tweet,” National Herald, May 8, 2020:
Modi-led BJP government has asked Twitter to remove one of the BJP MP Tejasvi Surya’s tweet which he posted in 2015 about linking Islam with Terrorism, a report in The Wire said.
“In short: true, terror has no religion. But the terrorist definitely has a religion, and in most cases it’s Islam”, Surya’s 2015 tweet read.
Surya’s tweet has now been withheld in India but can be accessed in other countries.
India’s Ministry of Electronic and Information Technology (MEITY) had reportedly sent a notice to Twitter on April 28 to take down the tweet.
Further, Twitter reached out to Lumen, its third-party database that published content removal request by May 3.
The notice circulated claims that the IT ministry cited Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 to order Twitter to remove the offending tweet.
Section 69A provides for blocking public access to information when the “the Central Government or any of its officer specially authorised by it in this behalf is satisfied that it is necessary or expedient so to do, in the interest of sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, the security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States or public order or for preventing incitement to the commission of any cognizable offense relating to above.”
Most of the content withheld from viewing in India by Twitter contains a statement that can cause a disturbance between religious groups.
According to the report in The Wire, most of the removed tweets were posted by the ‘right-wing’ accounts that have a large number of followers.
Other tweets that were taken down by Twitter appear to be inflammatory Islamist content put out by accounts that basically talk about pro-Pakistan causes….