"This is an outright lie by Jack Dorsey, perhaps an attempt to brush out a dubious period of Twitter's history," Chandrasekhar posted. "As a matter of fact they were in non-compliance with law repeatedly from 2020 to 2022 and it was only June 2022 when they finally complied. No one went to jail nor was Twitter 'shutdown' (sic)."
"India, for example," he replied. "India is one of the countries which had many requests around farmers protests, around particular journalists which were critical of the government, and it manifested in ways such as 'we will shut Twitter down in India'... 'we would raid the homes of your employees', which they did; 'we will shut down your offices if you don't follow suit'. And this is India, a democratic country."
"Such was the level of partisan behavior on Twitter under Jack regime, that they had a problem removing misinformation from the platform in India, when they did it themselves when similar events took place in the US. To set the record straight, no one was raided or sent to jail. Our focus was only on ensuring the compliance of Indian laws," the minister concluded.