In a surprising disclosure, it has been revealed
that Twitter is censoring digital India related dissenting
tweets in India. Previously it was revealed that Twitter
was censoring tweets pertaining to Aadhaar
in similar fashion. In fact, aadhaar is a heavily
censored subject in India for long.
Speech and expression in general and civil
liberties in cyberspace in particular are under severe
attack from none other than our own government. Praveen
Dalal, whose tweets
on Digital India are censored on a regular basis, believes that far
from digital empowerment, Digital India has become the Biggest
Panopticon of Human Race. Any tweet about this “Digital
Panopticon of India” is also censored by Twitter almost
in “Real Time”.
It is not the purpose of Twitter to be a “Media
Agent” of Indian Government and censor tweets that are criticising
the Digital India project for its Weaknesses, Illegalities and
Unconstitutionalities, suggests Dalal.
All this is happening because Indian Parliament and
Supreme Court have failed to curb the growing constitutional
violations through illegal
and unconstitutional e-surveillance by our Executive.
Supreme Court has also failed to declare Aadhaar
as unconstitutional and this is the root cause of all
troubles in India.
Even United Nations has failed to fulfill its duties
in this regard. Human Rights protection in cyberspace must be
internationally
recognised by the United Nations that it has failed to do
so far. Let us hope that good sense would prevail and Indian
government would stop abusing civil liberties of Indians.
