Amul vs China: Netizens bash Twitter for temporarily blocking dairy giant's account

As soon as Republic Media Network reported on Twitter temporarily blocking Amul's account, netizens started bashing Twitter for its double standards. micro-blogging platform allegedly blocked dairy giant's Twitter handle for a limited time over a creative supporting cause of buying made in India products and boycotting Chinese goods, however, Twitter restored Amul's account later.

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Here is netizens' outr calling out hypocrisy of Twitter which is t even present in China as y use a Chinese version of Twitter called 'Sina Weibo'.

 After Twitter's move of blocking Amul for being nationalistic, a Twitter user opined that wars will be fought on social media platforms by blocking accounts of countries or ir presidents/ prime ministers blocking flow of information. 

Whereas some insisted on blocking Twitter in India, way China has done for Twitter and Google calling it a move for safeguarding interest of country.

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A user had already anticipated when Twitter had posted creative and expressed his apprehension of creative being removed. However, Twitter went a step ahead and blocked Amul's account, though w it has been restored with tweet consisting creative. 

Amul's creative comes in solidarity with nationwide call of boycotting Chinese products after China's continued efforts to infiltrate Indian territory while claiming it ir own.  Clashes occurred on two occasions between Indian army and Chinese army. resulting in injuries on both sides. Chinese military helicopters were spotted close to border between India and China in eastern Ladakh, following which Su-30 fighters of Indian Air Force carried out sorties in area. Indian and Chinese army personnel came face to face at Pangong lake in Ladakh on May 5, after which ar face-off occurred four days later. 

Stand-off and diplomacy to resolve conflict

Indian government has constantly shown a firm resolve stating that India will t let go of even an inch of land. same has been asserted by Chinese mouthpiece on Friday.

Meanwhile, diplomatic and military level talks are going on at Moldo to end standoff along LAC. Sources said that Lieutenant General Harinder Singh, Commander of 14 Corps is holding talks with Major General Liu Lin, who is commander of South Xinjiang Military Region of China's People's Liberation Army. Ten or officers from both sides are also present.

As per sources, both nations have tabled specific proposals to end standoff and a number of skirmishes that have taken place between army of both nations along LAC in past few days. This crucial meeting comes after a breakthrough has t been achieved despite nearly 10 rounds of talks between two sides.

Twitter claims it as a failed verification protocol due which account failed to open

Responding to criticism, Twitter has issued a statement which said, "Safety and security of accounts is a key priority for us and to ensure an account has t been compromised sometimes we require account owner to complete a simple reCAPTCHA process. This is easy for auntic account owners to solve, but difficult (or costly) for spammy or malicious account owners to complete. Once account clears this security step, account regains full access. To protect accounts, we routinely require m to clear this security key for login verification."