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Twitter finally toes India’s line. But does it have a hand to shake with the Centre for a truce?

Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw (left) and MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar. Credit: Comyan

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From appointing a resident grievance officer to releasing its first compliance report ─ Twitter has toed the government’s line eventually on new IT rules. Amid all this, the Centre’s top leadership concerning the IT industry has also changed. Will this put an end to Twitter’s problems? For that matter, is Twitter ready to work in that direction? Experts don’t agree.

It was almost prophetic. On July 5, strategic-affairs expert Brahma Chellaney, tweeted, “Government tells the High Court, Twitter has failed to comply with India’s new IT rules, despite this, Twitter knows Modi won’t act against it. Twitter will have the last laugh if the minister of electronics and information technology is replaced in the impending Cabinet reshuffle.” And on July 7, a much-pending Cabinet reshuffle was announced. The legal

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