Update: Twitter has reinstated all the tweets according to Manjul, however there is no official word from Twitter yet. Earlier: Twitter deleted two political cartoons on the issue of Lokpal bill posted by DNA India cartoonist Manjul over the past three days. The first cartoon, starring protector of free speech Kapil Sibal*, was originally posted on Saturday night. The second cartoon took a small jab at Rahul Gandhi and was posted last night. Manjul told Medianama that both the cartoons were deleted twice. While the first cartoon re-appeared later today, the second cartoon stayed up after it was uploaded for the third time. MediaNama has written to Twitter for inputs regarding its policy regarding censorship, why this particular cartoon was censored, and if a third party had filed complaints, then information on who filed the complaint. Update: As rightly pointed out by Venkata Satish, we have no way of ascertaining the veracity of the claim that these cartoons were deleted, although we have no reason for doubting Manjul's claims. We'll update in case Twitter responds. "I drew the first cartoon a year ago, and posted it on Saturday night again as Lokpal bill was in news. In the morning I realised it wasn't there anymore, but I thought it didn't upload or there was a problem with Twitter. So I kept language of the post and everything the same and posted it, but it was deleted again. Last evening, I posted the Rahul Gandhi cartoon which received about 30-35 retweets, and then disappeared. So I re-uploaded…
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