Government today clarified that it is not targetting individual accounts or websites and does not want restrictions on genuine users. Talking to reporters in New Delhi, Communication and Information Technology Minister, Kapil Sibal said that Facebook and Google are cooperating with government and decided to close down the objectionable sites. He said, the difficulty is with twitter sites as it operates from outside India and the server of all such sites are outside the jurisdiction of India. He however said that twitter have expressed their willingness for talks with the government to bring a solution to the issue.

The Minister said that the government has also provided 28 Universal Resource Locator numbers to twitter under which objectionable material is being shown. He said, the reports about the government aggressively targeting some accounts or websites, are incorrect.