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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.
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.
The microblogging site also argued that the law only allows the blocking of a particular tweet, and not an entire account simply because of political criticism unless there was evidence of a repeated offence.
Twitter has moved the Karnataka High Court against the Indian government's content blocking orders on its platform, on the grounds that the content blocking directives from the IT Ministry do not pass "the test of the grounds provided under Section 69A of the IT Act", reliable sources said on Tuesday.
Why the New IT Rules Beg Urgent Judicial Review The new intermediary rules have conferred unbridled powers to the executive, potentially in complete disregard to the constitutionally guaranteed rights of freedom of speech and expression. Facebook and Twitter app icons on a smartphone. Photo: Reuters The Caravan, a leading investigative journalism magazine was withheld. News agency ANI soon reported that around 250 accounts had been withheld by Twitter in India upon request from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act,...