Reacting to the development of the Delhi Police registering a case against Twitter on a complaint by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) for allegedly allowing access to child sexual abuse material on the social media platform, the microblogging platform said it has a zero-tolerance policy for child sexual exploitation.
"Twitter has a zero-tolerance policy for child sexual exploitation (CSE). We will continue to invest in proactive detection and removal of content that violates Twitter rules and work with law enforcement and NGO partners in India to tackle the issue," the Twitter India spokesperson said in a statement.
Twitter further clarified that it has been in the "forefront of responding to the evolving challenge of preventing the exploitation of children on the Internet," and will continue to do so.
The Delhi Police had registered an FIR against Twitter under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the IT Act for allegedly allowing access to child pornography on the platform on a complaint by the NCPCR.
Meanwhile, the National Commission for Women (NCW) asked the managing director of Twitter India to remove all pornographic and obscene content from the platform within a week.
NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma also wrote to the Commissioner of Police, Delhi to investigate the matter and take appropriate legal action. "The NCW has taken suo motu cognisance of several profiles on Twitter sharing pornographic content. Chairperson Ms Rekha Sharma has written to managing director, Twitter India, for immediately removing all such pornographic and obscene content from the platform within a week," the women's panel said in a statement.
Upon receiving a similar complaint earlier, the commission had brought the matter to Twitter's notice for immediate action. However, no action was reportedly taken by the platform, the NCW said.
—With PTI inputs
