Rajiv Kumar, Chief Election Commissioner of India
Social media platform X said on Tuesday it withheld some posts containing political speech from elected politicians, political parties, and candidates for office after the Election Commission of India ordered their takedown. Elon Musk-owned X said it disagreed with the election commission’s orders.
In a statement the social media platform said,”The Election Commission of India has issued takedown orders requiring X to act on posts containing political speech shared from elected politicians, political parties and candidates for office. In compliance with the orders, we have withheld these posts for the remainder of the election period; however, we disagree with these actions and maintain that freedom of expression should extend to these posts and political speech in general.
We have notified the affected users and in the interest of transparency, we are publishing the takedown orders here. We call on the Election Commission to publish all of its takedown orders going forward.”
India, with nearly a billion eligible voters, will set off on the world’s largest electoral exercise on Friday.
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