Twitter accounts of several celebrities and organisations,including actor Sushant Singh, Caravan magazine, Kisan Ekta Morcha,Tractor2twitr and other politicians, farmer leaders, writers and activists thatwere suspended on Monday on directions of the Ministry of Electronics and InformationTechnology (Meity), were restored late in the evening.
The IT ministry and law enforcement agencies had last weekordered Twitter to block these tweets and accounts under Section 69A of theInformation Technology Act.
A Twitter spokesperson said that the company has taken strongenforcement action to protect the conversation on the service from attempts toincite violence, abuse and threats that could trigger the risk of offline harmby blocking certain terms that violate our rules for trend.
However, the social media platform received criticism for suspendingthe accounts and people from various walks of the life termed it a brazen attackom the freedom of speech.
Meanwhile, many accounts now has been restored, while fewstill remain suspended.