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IT Minister says Twitter denied access to his account for an hour today

My comments calling out high handedness, arbitrary actions of Twitter have clearly ruffled feathers, Ravi Shankar Prasad says

Ravi Shankar Prasad
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Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology (IT) Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday claimed that Twitter has denied access to his account for almost an hour today on the alleged ground that there was a violation of Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the US. 

The social media giant subsequently allowed him to access the account.
Friends! Something highly peculiar happened today. Twitter denied access to my account for almost an hour on the alleged ground that there was a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the USA and subsequently they allowed me to access the account.

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