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With the government and Twitter at loggerheads over issues related to content removal and freedom of expression, the Centre on Wednesday expressed deep disappointment over Twitters partial compliance to its orders grudgingly and with substantial delay.

In a video-conference meeting with Twitters vice president-global public policy, Monique Meche, and deputy general counsel and vice president-legal, Jim Baker, Information Technology Secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney said that while Twitter was free to formulate its own rules and guidelines, Indian laws, which are enacted by the Parliament of India, must be followed irrespective of Twitters own rules, according to a Ministry statement.

An official source told The Hindu that during the meeting, requested by Twitter, the microblogging platform was informed that the government expected full compliance of the blocking orders and the Centre was unlikely to revisit its list.

The U.S.-headquartered firm has been under fire from the government over non-compliance to block 250 accounts using hashtags related to farmer genocide, and about 1,178 accounts that security agencies suspect are backed by Khalistani sympathisers and Pakistan.

The meeting follows a blog post by Twitter, where it said it had withheld a portion of the accounts identified in the blocking orders given by the government. It, however, added that no action had been taken against the accounts of news media entities, journalists, activists and politicians. To do so, we believe, would violate their fundamental right to free expression under Indian law. We informed MeitY (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) of our enforcement actions today, February 10, 2021, Twitter said.

In a detailed blog post, Twitter also added that it had taken a range of enforcement actions, including permanent suspension of accounts in certain cases, against more than 500 accounts escalated across all Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) orders for clear violations of Twitters Rules.

At any point in time, lawful order given by an authorised/empowered entity... is not up for negotiations, the source said, adding that similar orders were sent to other platforms, including YouTube and Facebook, and they had complied with the orders.

The Ministry statement added that the Secretary had told Twitter representatives that while India had a robust mechanism for protection of freedom of speech and expression, freedom of expression is not absolute and it is subject to reasonable restrictions as mentioned in Article 19 (2) of the Constitution of India.

On the issue of the use of the hashtag related to farmer genocide on Twitter, the Secretary expressed strong displeasure on the way Twitter acted after an emergency order was issued to remove this hashtag and content related to that. Spreading misinformation using an incendiary and baseless hashtag...at a time when such irresponsible content can provoke and inflame the situation is neither journalistic freedom nor freedom of expression as envisaged under Article 19 of the Constitution of India.

Drawing a parallel between the incident at Red Fort in Delhi on Republic Day to the violence at the Capitol Hill in the United States, the Secretary highlighted the differential treatment in the two incidents, expressing a deep sense of disappointment with Twitters siding not with freedom of expression but rather with :those who sought to abuse such freedom and provoke disturbance to public order.

Lawfully passed orders are binding on any business entity. They must be obeyed immediately. If they are executed days later, it becomes meaningless, the Secretary stressed.

MeitY said the Twitter leadership had affirmed its commitment towards following Indian laws and rules. Twitter had also expressed its continuing commitment towards building its services in India, and had requested better engagement between the Government of India and Twitters global team.

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Business-to-Business Marketing 2020-2021" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

This report presents statistics on B2B spending, comparisons of the effectiveness of marketing tactics, surveys of marketers and end-users, and analyses of trends in the B2B marketplace.

Topics include analytics, B2B media advertising, B2B e-commerce, behavioral marketing, business directories and databases, content marketing, creating customer awareness, customer relationship management, direct marketing, distribution channels, email marketing, engagement, event marketing, integrated marketing communications, lead generation, lead management, lead nurturing, marketing automation, mobile marketing, networking, online video, organic and paid search, sales staff, social media marketing, sponsorships, sports marketing, software tools, trade show marketing, website traffic, and more.

Over 1,200 website links, directly embedded into the electronic edition, will direct you to additional market research and other resources. B2B marketers will gain insight from the broad scope of information in Business-to-Business Marketing 2020-2021. For academic libraries, Business-to-Business Marketing 2020-2021 is an essential reference that supports business management and marketing curricula.

Key Topics Covered:

PART I: MARKET OVERVIEW

1 BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS MARKETING

1.1 B2B Marketing

1.2 Comparison Of B2B and B2C Marketing

2 B2B SPENDING

2.1 B2B External Spending

2.2 B2B Marketing Budgets

2.3 Digital Advertising Spending

2.4 B2B Marketing Budgets 2019

2.5 B2B Sales Collateral

2.6 Market Resources

3 B2B MEDIA

3.1 Business News Magazines

3.2 Business Technology Magazines

3.3 Newspapers

PART II: STATE OF B2B MARKETING

4 B2B MARKETING BENCHMARKS

4.1 Overview

4.2 B2B CMO Survey

4.3 Market Resources

5 B2B MARKETING OUTLOOK

5.1 Overview

5.2 Survey Results

5.3 Market Resources

6 B2B MARKETING TACTICS

6.1 Overview

6.2 Objectives

6.3 Marketing Tactics

6.4 Market Resources

7 CMO MARKETING STRATEGY

7.1 Overview

7.2 Survey Results

7.3 Market Resources

8 DATA MANAGEMENT

8.1 Overview

8.2 Survey Results

8.3 Market Resources

9 DIGITAL MARKETING STRATEGY

9.1 Overview

9.2 Marketing Data & Technology Strategy

9.3 Marketing Technology Trends And Utilization

9.4 Marketing Technology ROI

9.5 Market Resources

10 TRENDS IN B2B MARKETING

10.1 Overview

10.2 Top Trends

10.3 Market Resources

PART III: MARKET LEADERS

11 TOP ADVERTISERS

11.1 Top 100 B2B Advertisers

11.2 Market Resources

12 TOP B2B AGENCIES

12.1 B2B Agency Ranking

12.2 Market Resources

13 TOP B2B BRANDS

13.1 Overview

13.2 Ranking 2019

13.3 Market Resources

PART IV MARKET SEGMENTATION

14 BUSINESS & WORKFORCE COUNTS

14.1 Number of Businesses

14.2 Small Businesses

14.3 Workforce

14.4 State Assessment

14.5 Market Resources

15 NAICS

15.1 Overview

15.2 NAICS Segments and Business Counts

15.3 Market Resources

16 DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS

16.1 Overview

16.2 Distributors

16.3 Purchasing Consortiums

16.4 Retailers

16.5 Wholesalers

16.6 Market Resources

17 BUSINESS DIRECTORIES & DATABASES

17.1 Overview

17.2 Business Directory/Database Publishers

18 DIRECT MARKETING LISTS

18.1 Overview

18.2 List Brokers, Compilers and Managers

PART V: MARKETING & SALES

19 ACCOUNT-BASED MARKETING

19.1 Overview

19.2 Implementation

19.3 Effectiveness

19.4 Account-Based Marketing Survey

19.5 Market Resources

20 ANALYTICS

20.1 Overview

20.2 Predictive Analytics

20.3 Metrics Measured

20.4 Marketing Analytics Survey

20.5 Analytics Technology Products

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Gina Carano fired: This past week has been rough for Gina Carano, who played the role of Cara Dune on The Mandalorian. She was fired from the Lucasfilm on February 10 because of her social media updates.

The Star Wars producers announced that Carano is not employed by them and neither will she ever be associated with in the future. They called her social media posts abhorrent and unacceptable.

Carano created a ton of controversy by posting an objectionable opinion on her Instagram story. She wrote, Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbourseven by children. She didnt stop there and claimed that because the history is edited people today dont realise that Nazi soldiers first made the neighbours of jews hate them and that led to the killing of thousands of jews. She added, How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?

Her post was reported and taken down later. She really took it far by adding a picture of a person wearing double masks and wrote, Meanwhile in California and Expecting everyone you encounter to agree with every belief or view you hold is fucking wild.

Later it was reported that Carano had severed ties with her talent agency UTA. Or maybe it was the other way round. Gina Carano fired

Not really, in November last year, Gina Carano was constantly tweeting about how she doesnt agree with transgender pronouns and expressed her other objectionable views on mask-wearing and even joined certain Americans in their claim that the US elections in 2020 saw a voter fraud.

This made Star Wars ask Disney and Lucasfilm to fire Carano. The hashtag #FireGinaCarano went viral on the social networking site. At the time no statements were by Disney neither Lucasfilms. Carano had also declared that she will migrate her social media profiles to a certain app which she claimed give more freedom of speech.

There have been two seasons of the series The Mandalorian and Carano has appeared in both. She played the role of Cara Dune Cara Dune character, an ally to Mandos character played by Pedro Pascal. It was also said that her character will play an important role in the upcoming seasons and the spinoff series Rangers of The New Republic.

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Gina Carano Posts And Everything That Happened Next: Explained - SheThePeople

After right-wing extremists attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, and Twitter banned then-President Donald Trump from further postings on its platform, some wondered why the social network waited so long to impose the ban. Others asked why Twitter silenced Trump and not other provocateurs, and raised questions about agenda-driven enforcement. Still others asked what right Twitter has as a supposedly neutral platform for the exchange of ideas and information to ban anyone? All good questions.

Its hard to believe now, but there was a time when early online forums and content providers had to read everything they put online and approve everything on their sites. Quite simply, they were responsible for the content they published. The internet was a small place, and content control was more manageable. Then came the internet revolution, which changed the way we communicate. Online speech, internet platforms and related responsibility for content moved front and center, and needed to be addressed.

Twenty-five years ago, Congress passed the Telecommunications Decency Act of 1996. Section 230 of that law provides immunity for website publishers for third-party content. Under the terms of the law: No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider. And the law goes on to provide a form of Good Samaritan protection from civil liability for online operators who remove or moderate third-party materials they deem obscene or offensive, even if the speech is otherwise constitutionally protected, so long as the removal or moderation is done in good faith.

Section 230s broad protections helped the growth of social media and the wide sharing of information and opinions. It has provided protection for users to upload videos on YouTube and Vimeo, for Facebook and Twitter to offer social networking to millions of internet users, for bloggers to host comments of others on their sites, for Amazon and Yelp to publish user reviews, and for services like Craigslist to publish all sorts of classified ads. But there is a tension between Section 230 and the First Amendment. While private companies can create rules to restrict speech that is subject to their control, government is prohibited from restricting most forms of speech, and cannot require tech companies to do so.

After its 25-year run, Section 230 is ready for reform. But what kind remains the question. The debate about Section 230 shows that people of all political persuasions are unhappy with the status quo," Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told Congress last October. People want to know that companies are taking responsibility for combating harmful content especially illegal activity on their platforms.

We agree. But social media cant have it both ways. If the operators of social media sites have the right to regulate content on their sites, they should also be answerable for what they publish. Any other approach allows for abuse and is unfair. JN

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Social media can't have it both ways - Jewish News of Greater Phoenix

There is no doubt in the fact that the internet today runs the world but have you ever wondered about what exactly people really do on the internet? While there would be multiple guesses or answers to this question, we are presenting statistics related to the similar online behaviors.

According to the Digital 2021 report created with the collaboration of We Are Socials and Hootsuite, about 63% of users go online to find information related to their daily life matters. This figure also makes up as two-thirds of the worlds internet users who possess the similar motivation.

But that is not the only thing that the researchers of GWI have presented. Since search behaviors are evolving with the passage of time, this means that there will be important consequences in times to come that anyone planning to engage a digital audience will have to take care of.

The reports show that conventional search engines are continuously on top with 98% of the respondents admitting that they now rely on the search engines more than ever.

But in that too, 7 in 10 respondents also revealed a surprising fact of using at least one tool (excluding the text-based search engine one) to look out for information online every month.

As expected in previous years, voice interfaces are now a big hit with 45% of internet users from around the world have used voice search or voice commands in the last 30 days.

Along with that, one-third of global internet users are also relying on the image recognition tools which are readily available on all mobiles every month in the form of Pinterest Lens and Google Lens - as both of these apps have experienced a hike in usage across Latin America and Southeast Asia.

However, with all the statistics, the rise of social search has been the best evolving behavior so far. A whopping 45% of internet users are now finding the relevant information regarding products or services on social networking platforms and in return, those platforms are offering multiple options of what they are looking for.

The figures related to this behavior turn out to be even higher when we look at younger users. As per whats stated in the report, there are more chances of Gen Z users searching for a particular brand on social media instead of search engines.

Its finally the war of social media versus search engines where for now, social networks are winning!

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Here Is How Online Search Behaviors Are Changing - A Tussle Between Search Engines And Social Media! - Digital Information World