Twitter, in a sense, was surely just a showboat. There was no way to get out of it by violating the law of the land. But after being adamant and daring for a few days, Twitter finally appointed the protest redress officer, as required by new IT rules in India. On their site, there is no doubt that the company has appointed Dharmendra Chatur as the interim grievance redress officer. He would be a designated associate in the firm representing Twitter in the High Court of the city of Delhi. Yesterday afternoon, Twitter also formally affirmed to the Delhi City High Court that it had appointed a Protest Officer pursuant to Rule Four of the Information Technology Regulations Two Thousand and Twenty-One (Indications for Advocates and Code of digital morality) on May XNUMX. Other social media advocates like Google, Facebook, and WhatsApp had also appointed a protest officer without further delay.
Screenshot from the Twitter site showing the name of the new protest officer. (Image credit: Twitter) The Delhi City High Court issued a notice to Twitter last night for its alleged breach of new information technology rules. It also made it clear to Twitter that it must comply with the new IT rules if they have not been suspended. The court also asked the government to submit its response. Twitter had previously asked for three months of time to comply with the new rules. He also tried to be affable by offering his US office as a reference center. This needlessly harassed the government and activists, one of which took Twitter to court. And it is in such a case that the microblogging platform company should have quietly announced that it had appointed said executive. Twitter's reluctance to pluck a resource officer, who is only going to have a role to play in the event of a contentious content protest, was somewhat disconcerting. And his strategy of employing his confrontation with the Delhi City Police on a rather separate issue on this issue was a half-smart strategy. He thought he was winning ethically. What he basically did was put together a snook to the law. And no company can get away with such a public attitude.