Koo founders welcome Kangana Ranaut after her Twitter suspension, share first note

On Tuesday, Twitter suspended Kangana Ranaut's account permanently for violating its rules around hate speech. Later in day, rival app Koo welcomed Queen actor and said she was right in believing that 'Me in India' platform is like "home" while everything else was rented. 

Taking a dig at US-based rival, Koo co-founder Aprameya Rhakrishna shared Ranaut's message from February 16, 2021. "This was @kanganarofficial's first Koo. She's right in saying Koo is like her home while everything else is rented," Rhakrishna said on Koo. 

Back in February, Ranaut, in her first Koo (as messages on platform are called), h said this was a "new place" and would take time to get familiar with.  "...magar bhe ka ghar bhe ka hota hai, apna ghar kaisa bhi ho apna hota hai (a rented house is rented, one's own house is one's own no matter what)," she h said. Ranaut has over 4.48 lakh followers on Koo. 

Koo co-founder Mayank Bidawatka welcomed Ranaut, saying she can share her opinions on platform with a sense of pride. 

Twitter's statement on Kangana Ranaut's account suspension

"We’ve been clear that we'll take strong enforcement action on behavior that has potential to le to offline harm. account has been permanently suspended for repeated violations of Twitter Rules specifically our Hateful Conduct policy & Abusive Behaviour policy," a Twitter spokesperson said. 

Apart from Twitter, 34-year-old actress also issued a statement on suspension and accused "white people" of 'feeling entitled to enslave a brown person’ Giving a sharp reply to social media platform, Kangana stated that re are ‘many platforms she can use to raise her voice, including her own art in form of cinema.’ 

Kangana Ranaut said, "Twitter has only proved my point y are Americans and by birth, a white person feels entitled to enslave a brown person, y want to tell you what to think, speak or do, fortunately, I have many platforms I can use to raise my voice including my own art in form of cinema but my heart goes out to people of this nation who have been tortured, enslaved and censored for thousands of years and still re is no end to suffering..”

(with PTI inputs)