Actress Swara Bhasker on January 30 said that her X (Twitter) account had been permanently suspended by the social media platform due to alleged copyright infringements over two posts that she shared on Republic Day. She shared a screenshot of an email she received from X’s team, on Instagram and criticised the decision as “ridiculous” and “untenable”. “Two images from two tweets have been marked as ‘copyright infringements’,” she wrote.
In the first post, Swara had shared a picture of the popular Hindi protest slogan, Gandhi hum sharmindaa hain, tere qaatil zinda hain (Gandhi, we are ashamed, your killers are still alive). She explained, “There is no copyright violation. It is akin to urban modern folk idiom.” The other post featured a picture of her child waving the Indian flag on Republic Day. The child’s face was covered by a heart emoji.
