India's IT minister criticises Twitter for denying access to account


FILE PHOTO The Twitter App loads on an iPhone in this illustration photograph taken in Los Angeles California U.S. July 22 2019.    REUTERSMike Blake

FILE PHOTO: The Twitter App loads on an iPhone in this illustration photograph taken in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July 22, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's technology minister criticised Twitter on Friday for denying access to his account for almost an hour amid a dispute between the U.S. company and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration over compliance with new IT rules.

Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Koo, a domestic rival to Twitter, that the company had denied access on the grounds he had violated the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). It subsequently restored access.

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