Musk’s X Challenges India Court Ruling On Content Blocking Orders: All Details – News18

Social media platform X has sought to quash an Indian court docket resolution that discovered it non-compliant with content material removing orders, arguing the ruling may embolden the federal government to dam extra content material.

X, previously often known as Twitter, in July 2022 sought to overturn some authorities orders to take away content material from its platform, with out specifying which. A court docket in June 2023 quashed that request and imposed a fantastic of 5 million rupees ($60,560).

If X’s attraction is rejected, the federal government ”will probably be emboldened to challenge extra blocking orders” that violate legislation, mentioned X’s 96 web page submitting submitted by native legislation agency Poovayya & Co.

X, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, mentioned within the submitting there have to be ”discernible parameters” on what mandates the blocking of a whole account as an alternative of a particular put up, in any other case the federal government’s ”energy to censor future content material is untrammeled”.

X in earlier years has been requested by Indian authorities to behave on content material together with accounts deemed supportive of an unbiased Sikh state, posts alleged to have unfold misinformation about protests by farmers, and tweets crucial of the federal government’s dealing with of the COVID-19 pandemic.

($1 = 82.5625 Indian rupees)

(This story has been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated news company feed – Reuters)