Beware of this Rushi Patel (@rushipa14664623)
In just 3 weeks, he’s gone from asking for a job (img 2) to asking for money (img 3) to asking me to promote some paid certificate crap (img 4). Says he’s struggling financially but has money for X verification 😂
@LeftOf__Centre We are not. It was clarified immediately, and we even gave the example of Periyaar. It was a comparison of people with actual education vs fake degree holders.
The Delhi Police's takedown drive against posts critical of the Prime Minister is unconstitutional.
New Delhi, 27 July 2026
Media reports today state that the Delhi Police has directed social media platforms to remove posts, videos, memes and reels containing remarks it describes as "abusive", "offensive" and "objectionable" towards the Prime Minister, uploaded during the student protests at Jantar Mantar and after the 'Sansad Chalo' march of 20 July 2026. At least three platforms have reportedly received notices. Several posts have already been taken down. A dedicated police team is monitoring social media to identify further content, and reports indicate that criminal proceedings are contemplated against those who posted it. No order has been published. While reports indicate the notices invoke the Information Technology Act, the specific provision relied upon and the text of the notices remain undisclosed.
The Internet Freedom Foundation condemns this takedown drive and calls for the notices to be disclosed and withdrawn.
On the reports available, the content being removed is political expression. The movement at Jantar Mantar has been conducted as much through reels, memes, posters and digital artwork as through assembly on the ground. This is how a digital native generation raised online speaks about accountability. As per Article 19(2) restrictions on speech only on eight specified grounds. Offensiveness is not one of them. In Shreya Singhal v. Union of India (2015) 5 SCC 1, the Supreme Court struck down Section 66A of the IT Act precisely because expressions such as "grossly offensive" and causing "annoyance" were vague, subjective, and swept protected speech within their net. Eleven years later, the Delhi Police is applying the same standard through informal notices and legal powers which are not being publicly disclosed.
As per existing practices there are two routes for removing online content. The first is Section 69A of the IT Act read with the Blocking Rules, 2009, which requires a reasoned order, committee review, and notice to the originator, as the Delhi High Court affirmed in Tanul Thakur v. Union of India (2022). The second is Section 79(3)(b), which Shreya Singhal read down to require a court order or a government notification strictly confined to Article 19(2) grounds. If these notices were routed through the Sahyog Portal, they rest on a regime whose constitutionality remains under challenge before multiple High Courts. However, even if it is used police notices citing offensiveness satisfy neither.
Reports that platforms were told the content violates "their policies" make the defect worse, the police have no mandate to enforce the community guidelines of private companies. Unpublished directions are also contrary to Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India (2020) 3 SCC 637, which requires that orders restricting fundamental rights be published so that they can be challenged. If the underlying theory is defamation of the Prime Minister, the police have no role at all. Defamation under Section 356 of the BNS is a non-cognizable offence, prosecuted only on a complaint by the person aggrieved under Section 222 of the BNSS.
Our demands
1. The Delhi Police must publish every notice issued, the legal provision invoked, and the list of URLs affected.
2. Notices directed at satire, criticism, and political commentary must be withdrawn. Any removal must follow the procedures under Section 69A or a judicial order.
3. No criminal proceedings should be initiated against persons for speech that does not meet the constitutional threshold of incitement.
4. Platforms must decline requests unsupported by valid legal orders, notify affected users, and disclose the number of government demands in their transparency reports.
Students who question an examination system are exercising their fundamental rights and deleting their posts will not delete their questions.
Reports referred to:
1. Times of India, "Delhi Police orders removal of offensive posts against PM Narendra Modi linked to NEET paper leak protests", 27 July 2026
2. News18, "Delhi Police Issues Notices To Social Media Platforms Over Offensive Posts Against PM Modi During Jantar Mantar Protest", 27 July 2026
@MangoSeasonison Asking pertinent questions is not trolling. 👍🏼 You’re a lawyer - defend an individual’s right to criticise, not an indefensible govt. And if you get fat, you won’t get too far in coming after me. 😅🤣
@MangoSeasonison Your post is full of aggression against someone who is criticising a narcissist terrible leader in power. Why should they not? Is it not his/her right to do so? Why try to silence the criticism?
Itz bcz of ppl like you that students and youth get tagged with these shittyy tags
“Anti national” “terrorists”and their actual grievances and concerns get hijacked!
For once park your BS POLITICS aside and speak for them else STFUP
Itz embarrassing how when you could become a solent supporter or voice for the youth you decided to let your hatred for the One particular political leader cloud everything.
Literally there is No difference between you and IT Cell and andhbhakts that you call out!
Let me tell you where this is going, and what the Nandan Nilekani committee for exams is broadly going to recommend and why:
1. Nandan Nilekani has a standard playbook: create "Digital Public Infrastructure", create a digital identity and try and build 100% national coverage for this. He has a single playbook for government that he and Ispirit have used in the past, and you can expect the same.
This Playbook has two key parts: identity and interchange infrastructure.
2. The identity: One part of this Playbook already exists... the ID, specifically the Apaar ID. They've done: Aadhaar (ID), UHID(Health), Apaar ID(Education), FasTag(Transportation).
Every crisis is an opportunity for our Tech godman. COVID was used create UHID without consent during vaccination.
The Apaar ID, which schools have forced students to get and link to Aadhaar, will be used here. The idea was always that these would be used for examinations.
3. The infrastructure is the second part: IT services companies benefit from the deployment of this infrastructure. Look at banking , GSTN and govt services and you can see who benefits and how. There's sometimes conflict of interest for some people but who cares.
4. The people: You need to look at the people in this committee and ecosystem that will be built around it. Some of them will be old affiliates... You'll see the former Aadhaar "volunteers" in different parts of it, and in the business that get built around it. Guess who backs ekstep and who is there. If you start a people map, you'll see a pattern. Earlier omidiyar network was involved and now I'm sure the Bill and Melinda gates foundation (some affiliates there) might be interested.
There's a pattern but if course, even lots of correlation may not be causation.
5. The committee will recommend the usage of Apaar ID and exam systems that use them. They might recommend an authority to manage them similar to UIDAI, or just coopt or infiltrate NTA. There are areas where Nilenani influence remains: NPCI, various RBI committes mapping its future. During COVID, in Cowin and the National Health Authority, affiliates were involved, though that didn't end well.
6. We need to be conscious that this is a part of the citizen mapping plan: the Aadhaar plan, which maps and tracks us from, in their words "cradle to grave". Multiple IDs linked to Aadhaar give it a sense of permanence and help with dedupe across databases. All this eventually is used to build, as the Aadhaar related state resident data hubs said “a 360 degree citizen profile”, and that's the surveillance infrastructure. All touchpoints of your file, mapped for surveillance. Fed into NATGRID.
7. I should clarify that this isn't a Narendra Modi plan. This precedes his ascension to power: the Congress was already setting some parts of it up. Guess who worked with them on it? The bureaucracy wants this and the politicians get coopted.
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Of course, I'm not being serious. This is all a joke. A worst case scenario that probably isn't true. Just a silly nightmare for civil liberties. This is a parody account and a parody comment.
@anupmankar@_amitbehere@rambhakt_origin@NeilDube3@sabyaster All of those are tough questions for them to ask of their political masters. So it’s easier to play into anti-reservation politics, cause punching down is easier than punching up for the weak.
@MangoSeasonison So who should the focus be on then? How do you fix the system by letting the organisational leader get away without any criticism?
And who asked for any harm? Misinformation just to defend some politician?
@MangoSeasonison Difficult for you to align to any political party, yet you won’t miss an opportunity to come to the defense of an indefensible politician.
And going by the logic in point 2, Hitler should not be hated? Any rapists/scamster political leaders should not face immense hatred? 😅