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In such situations, it is essential that social media platforms push back against these unlawful blocking orders and uphold their commitment to freedom of expression.

Govt efforts to ban the BBC documentary drew more attention to it and showed the inefficacy of such measures.

A MeitY panel formed to examine requests or complaints for blocking access to information met 39 times in 2021 and 53 times in 2022. However, the parliament committee didn't take up the blocking Rules for scrutiny.

Around 55,580 websites, YouTube channels, applications, etc. were blocked in India between January 2015 and September 2022, as per a report released by SLFC.in.

Section 69A of IT Act, 2000, court orders, and obscenity were the 3 major grounds for blocking of websites in India, SFLC report states

If reasons were not recorded in such blocking orders, there would be a possibility of their being manufactured at a later stage, counsel for Twitter argued.

Hearing continued in Twitter's writ petition against some of the Indian government's orders to block content and accounts

Currently, there are two parallel blocking mechanisms: one, under Section 69A of the IT Act and the other, under Rule 3(1)(d) of IT Rules, 2021.

Even its limited powers under the IT Rules are not legally enforceable at present.

Senior advocate Arvind Datar argues that company is following rules laid out in Information Technology Act