X’s strictness: Banned more than 2 lakh accounts in India that violated the policy
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New Delhi (Uttam Hindu News): Elon Musk-run X Corp banned a record 2,12,627 accounts in India between February 26 and March 25, mostly for promoting pedophilia and non-consensual nudity. The micro-blogging platform also removed 1,235 accounts for promoting terrorism on its platform in the country. In total, X banned 213,862 accounts in the country during the reporting period.
X said in its monthly report in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021 that it received 5,158 complaints from users in India in the same time frame through its grievance redressal mechanism. Additionally, X processed 86 complaints appealing against account suspension.
“After reviewing the specifics of the situation, we reversed the suspension of 7 of these accounts,” the company said. The remaining reported accounts will remain suspended.” “We received 29 requests related to general questions about accounts during this reporting period,” it said.
Most of the complaints from India (3,074) were about deferring the ban. This was followed by sensitive adult content (953), hateful conduct (412) and abuse/harassment (359). X banned 5,06,173 accounts in India between January 26 and February 25. The micro-blogging platform also removed 1,982 accounts promoting terrorism on its platform in the country.
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