This has been written by Shreyas Godkhindi

The debate on Freedom of Speech and the Freedom of Expression has once again come up as a controversy erupted after Twitter labelled BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra’s Congress toolkit tweet as ‘manipulated media’, a term used by social media platforms to denote fabricated or fake media, like videos or photographs. Following this event, Two teams from Delhi Police’s special cell visited Twitter’s Delhi and Gurugram offices Monday to serve notice to its managing director. The Indian National Congress and its allies have raised alligations on this event terming that the Modi Government is against FoE and FoS. Read further as Team Janvad exposes the hypocrisy of INC and its allies.

Facebook in the year 2013 received as many as 4,765 content restriction requests from the UPA-led Indian Government. This was the highest censorship requests received by Facebook from any country.



The FoE and FoS was curbed under UPA Government but it was very less debated and discussed. Today, the hypocrisy of the opposition stands completely exposed.