Filed a Right to Information application with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology seeking reasons and other details for ordering “worldwide” blocking of my tweets on Amit Shah. The tweets were innocuous. So why order Twitter to block them? https://t.co/Ap7GK1lFNX

Unfortunately, as has been the norm, IT Ministry does not disclose reasons for passing a blocking order. Neither does it share a copy of the order which is bizarre and against principles of natural justice. How is one supposed to challenge the decision if copy of order is not… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645431481634832384

Fortunately, stumbled across a Parliamentary question on the issue of blocking certain Twitter handles by the govt (@thecaravanindia and @kisanektamorcha). Some reasons were provided by the govt to the parliament.

Under the RTI Act, information that cannot be denied to… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645432348505145344

…cannot be denied to a citizen.

All we have to see now is if the MEITY obeys the law of the land and shares the details or it chooses to flout it.

Also a reminder that the present govt is going to remove this right. It’ll delete the provision from RTI Act via DPDP Bill.

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Also, the Karnataka High Court which is hearing Twitter's challenge against what it calls "abuse of power" by the central govt in ordering blocking of tweets, asked this very pertinent question:
https://twitter.com/LiveLawIndia/status/1645421011494637573?s=20

For more details about what happened, here's the story:

https://twitter.com/OfficialSauravD/status/1644644480128286720?s=20