A parliamentary committee questioned representatives of social media giant Twitter on stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra’s recent “obscene” tweets targeting the Supreme Court and the chief justice of India and sought a reply within seven days, the panel’s chairperson Meenakshi Lekhi said on Thursday.
This came close on the heels of Twitter apologising in writing to the same parliamentary panel for wrongly showing Ladakh in China and promising to correct the error by the month-end.
Twitter India representatives deposed before the Joint Committee of Parliament on Data Protection Bill on Thursday.
“It is shameful that Twitter is allowing its platform for obscene remarks like the one by stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra against the Supreme Court and the CJI,” Lekhi told reporters here.