1st September 2021, Kathmandu
Several ‘Bluetick’ (verified) accounts and porn commences liberatingly share explicit videos and pictures with no censorship from Twitter, DisinfoLab verbalized in a report.
Twitter sanctions such accounts on its platforms, which while does not contravene their policies, transgresses the law of the land as these handles are accessible by the Indian users.
It is paramount to mention that Twitter, like the other convivial media platforms, does possess technical capabilities to restrict the access of some of its content/handle to categorical geographical locations. Ergo, it does not seem to be an issue of technical circumscription.
Twitter not only sanctions the presence of such content but withal avails in its spread.
The Twitter algorithm governing suggestion would guide you to multiple accounts of the same niche (porn content) if you transpire to probe or optically canvass one of the handles. It essentially amplifies the availability of such explicit content to the users, the report verbally expressed.
While it is not pellucid whether Twitter is willfully ignoring the law of the land, i.e. Indian prescription sharing of porn content or it has been oblivious: it perpetuates to be the hub of vulgar and pornographic content available online. Surprisingly, such content is openly available on Twitter, including explicit porn enjoined by law, the report verbally expressed.
Twitter, while sanctioning a teenager to open an account doesn’t restrict their access to the explicit content. Moreover, it withal doesn’t restrict the spread of porn content to India, where it is precluded by law.