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Twitter to alert Pak before suspending official accounts
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IANS | 10 Oct, 2019
Micro-blogging site Twitter has agreed to alert the Pakistan government
before it suspends official accounts, a Minister announced.
"After
two months effort, Twitter agrees on a new cadence. They will not
suspend govt verified accounts without prior intimation and consultation
with PK government," National IT Board Chairman Shabahat Ali Shah
tweeted on Wednesday.
Following his announcement, several media
outlets reported that the platform had agreed it would not suspend
Pakistani accounts at all or without involving the government.
Speaking
to Dawn news, the NITB Chairman clarified his statement: "They have
only (unofficially) agreed to alert us (government) on complaints
received against official accounts or those specified by Pakistan
authorities. Whether they suspend/withhold content is still their
decision."
The development comes two months after the Pakistan
government in August specified about 200 accounts that were suspended by
Twitter for posting content about Kashmir.
The list of accounts suspended, included Twitter handles run by some government officials.
In
an August 19 letter written to the Twitter Vice President, Trust and
Safety, Del Harvey, Shah said that users from Pakistan were shut down
without warning or prior notice.
He requested them to bring any
"belligerent content" to the government's notice before suspending the
account it was posted from.
He also requested Twitter to verify government officials' accounts.
"At
least government accounts should not be suspended without prior notice
to the authorities. The government, too, will document content posted
through official channels and review complaints lodged against them,"
Shah had said in his letter.
While speaking to Dawn news on
Wednesday, the NITB Chairman said that he would make a list of official
government handles, including of spokesmen for Ministers and other
representatives, as well as some non-government accounts such as NGOs
that the authorities claim responsibility for.
"Once the list is
submitted to Twitter, they will notify us in future, when and if, one of
those accounts have violated Twitter's rules and policies. We are yet
to see what we can do once a warning is received from Twitter," he
added.
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