Senior officials of Twitter India and the Delhi Police appeared before the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Tuesday over alleged videos of child pornography and rape being shared on the social media platform. According to official sources, the replies received from both Twitter and the Delhi Police were incomplete and unsatisfactory, hence they have been given time till 30 September to file a proper response.
Earlier, the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) summoned Twitter India and Delhi Police officials over alleged videos of child pornography and rape being shared on the social media platform.
DCW took suo moto notice of several alleged tweets containing child pornography on the social media platform Twitter.
“Videos of child pornography were shared on Twitter and were sold for Rs 20. Twitter has yet to delete them and report it further. We have summoned the head of Twitter India and have sought a report. We have also summoned Delhi Police and sought immediate action,” DCW chief Swati Maliwal told ANI.
DCW said these tweets were openly depicting videos and photographs of sexual acts involving children. In its letter to Twitter India and Delhi Police, the Commission said, “Almost all the tweets are portraying children completely naked, and many of them also depict brutal rape and other non-consensual sexual activities with children and women. Shockingly, some of these videos even depict rape with children and women while they are asleep!”
“Some of the Twitter accounts engaging in these criminal acts appear to be running a racket wherein they seek money for providing pornographic and rape videos of children and women from other users of the social media platform,” said DCW.
The Commission claimed there appeared to be hundreds of such objectionable videos on the social media platform, which were openly displaying child pornography and rape videos of women and children. According to DCW, it is deeply upsetting that such illegal acts involving sexual abuse of children and young women are openly publicised on the social media platform Twitter.