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The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) had on September 1 filed a 101-page statement of objection to Twitter's petition.

The microblogging platform had challenged orders on grounds of violation of freedom of speech and authorities not issuing notice to the alleged violators before asking Twitter to take down content

The Union government said that the writ petition by Twitter should be dismissed since it is not an Indian citizen, calling it "luxury litigation"

It's goes without saying, but I will say it anyway, the recent visit to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi certainly didn't help the already strained relations much, but within her reasoning for defiance of Beijing,...

Twitter India has taken the Union government's content blocking orders to the Karnataka High Court which scheduled the hearing for August 25th

Justice Krishna S Dixit issued notice to the Central government, and listed the case for further hearing on August 25.

Twitter's writ petition before the Karnataka High Court contends that the Union government's blocking orders are unconstitutional.

The Delhi High Court should quash the government's order to block Tanul Thakur's website in light of the Shreya Singhal verdict by the Supreme Court

The Indian government was directed to share the order based on which it has blocked the website dowrycalculator.com in the country.

This is the first time a censorship order by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, or a hearing before MeitY, will be provided to a content creator.