{"id":27680,"date":"2021-02-02T11:33:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T02:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/02\/twitter-suspends-hundreds-of-indian-accounts-after-government-demand"},"modified":"2021-02-02T11:33:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T02:33:28","slug":"twitter-suspends-hundreds-of-indian-accounts-after-government-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27680","title":{"rendered":"Twitter suspends hundreds of Indian accounts after government demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government claimed accounts of news sites, actors and activists sought to foment violence amid farmer protests<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Indian Twitter accounts including those belonging to news websites, activists and actors were suspended for more than 12 hours on Monday after the government said users were posting content inciting violence.<\/p>\n<p>The move came in the wake of weeks-long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2020\/dec\/16\/indian-farmers-protests-in-pictures\">protests by Indian farmers<\/a> against a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/26\/violent-clashes-as-indian-farmers-storm-delhis-red-fort\">new farm bill<\/a>. The protests turned violent last week when riot police were sent in. One demonstrator was killed and hundreds of people were injured including police officers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/02\/twitter-suspends-hundreds-of-indian-accounts-after-government-demand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government claimed accounts of news sites, actors and activists sought to foment violence amid farmer protestsHundreds of Indian Twitter accounts including those belonging to news websites, activists and actors were suspended for more than 12 hours on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":408,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,351,61,350,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-internet","category-south-and-central-asia","category-twitter","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27682,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27680\/revisions\/27682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}