X Challenges India's Content-Blocking Laws in Court

• X, formerly Twitter, has filed a petition in the Karnataka high court against the Indian government's use of Section 79(3)(b) of the IT Act.
• The company argues that this section sets up an illegal parallel content-blocking process and violates the Supreme Court's 2015 Shreya Singhal judgment.
• X contends that government authorities misuse this section to bypass Section 69A safeguards and arbitrarily censor online content.
• The company seeks protection from government actions that do not comply with Section 69A and opposes the Sahyog portal, calling it a 'Censorship Portal.'
• X claims that the misuse of Section 79(3)(b) undermines established legal procedures and creates a censorship system without checks and balances.

Source: Hindustan Times, Hindustan Times