Section 69a It Act News Today

A division bench of the Court is slated to decide on a case filed by X Corp (Twitter) questioning the Central government's orders to block certain tweets in 2021-22, which was later confirmed by a review committee.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has demanded that The Caravan magazine remove its story titled ‘Screams from the Army Post’ by Jatinder Kaur Tur which was published both in text and video format. Both these contents were to be removed within 24 hours as per the orders. The Ministry has said that if The Caravan does not remove the story, then the Government of India will block the URL of the story.

The Karnataka High Court posed the query while hearing X Corp's appeal against a single-judge order dismissing its challenge to orders issued by the Indian government to block certain Twitter posts and accounts.

A few users tried to revive accounts withheld on a legal demand from the government. They hit a wall.

The ten blocking orders in question issued between February 2021 and February 2022, directed Twitter to block certain information from access to the public, and to suspend several accounts.

The Karnataka High Court on Friday reserved its order on the petition filed by Twitter Inc, challenging the blocking orders issued to it by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology...

The petitioner chose to withdraw the petition after the Court suggested her to move the Bombay High Court first.

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.

Twitter argued before the Karnataka high court that the firm was asked to block entire accounts, although Section 69A of the IT Act does not permit that. It only permits to block information, or a tweet.

Twitter has approached the Karnataka High Court challenging certain orders issued by the Central government asking the microblogging platform to take down certain content.