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India blocked over 4400 Facebook, Twitter URLs in 2020 under Section 69A of IT Act: Sanjay Dhotre

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Over 4,400 URLs from Facebook and Twitter were blocked by the government in 2020 under Section 69A of the IT Act, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. Minister of State for Electronics and IT Sanjay Dhotre said blocking is done as per the process specified in the IT (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking for Access of Information By Public) Rules, 2009 notified under this section.