IT Minister says Twitter denied access to his account for an hour today

My comments calling out high handedness, arbitrary actions of Twitter have clearly ruffled feathers, Ravi Shankar Prasad says

BS Web Team
Last Updated at June 25, 2021 16:50 IST

Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology (IT) Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday claimed that Twitter has denied access to his account for almost an hour today on the alleged ground that there was a violation of Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the US.

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