Twitter had briefly locked Home Minister Amit Shah’s account on November 12 and deleted his profile picture.
Twitter had briefly locked Home Minister Amit Shah’s account on November 12 and removed his profile picture. However, shortly after, Twitter, assuming its mistake, started the account of the Home Minister and also restored the profile pick. Now Twitter has clarified this issue. The Twitter spokesperson on Friday admitted his mistake in removing the profile photo from Amit Shah’s account. Twitter called it an unintentional mistake and said that the Home Minister’s account was temporarily blocked by mistake, which has been rectified and Amit Shah’s Twitter account is now fully active.
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Twitter cited the global copyright policy as the reason behind the lockup of Amit Shah’s account. A statement issued by Twitter said that the decision taken under the Global Copyright Policy was withdrawn shortly after and the account was revived. Twitter expressed its reaction saying, “This mistake was rectified immediately and his profile photo has been posted. Now his account is active.”
Twitter’s copyright policy states that the photographer generally has the right over the photo, not the person seen in the photo. Amit Sah has 23.6 million followers on Twitter. A similar incident happened sometime back with the Twitter handle of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The company removed the display picture of the board’s account, citing copyright infringement.
Asked to reply to notice in 5 days
The incident on Twitter inadvertently blocking Amit Shah’s profile pick occurred on the day the Ministry of Electronic and Information Technology (IT Ministry) issued a notice to Twitter. On Twitter saying that Leh was a part of Jammu and Kashmir instead of Ladakh, the Ministry issued a notice asking it to respond within 5 days on why legal action should not be taken against it. Earlier also, Twitter had declared Leh as part of China, after which the Ministry had objected by writing a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. After that Twitter had rectified that mistake.
