Special | MEITY Flags Human Rights Activism in J&K as ‘Anti-India’ Content in Communication With X |
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New Delhi: Communication from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s (MEITY) Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) provides a window into what lies behind the spate of controversial takedown orders issued by the Union government recently, and the kind of human rights work deemed “anti-India”.
On March 9, The Wire has learnt, CERT-In asked social media platform X to provide “Basic subscriber registration and access log details (Phone number/Email address, IP address, date and time stamp, port number & GPS information) for the last three months” for seven handles who were posting about Jammu and Kashmir.
The documentation attached and the tone adopted by the government makes clear that the government’s allegations of “disseminating anti-India propaganda, separatist narratives, and attempting to disrupt the peaceful atmosphere” in J&K are in fact being made against those who are talking (and openly) about the human rights situation in the........