Karnataka HC Rules Against Twitter’s Plea for Restricting the Scope of Online Blocking Orders
In its judgement of June 30, 2023, in X Corp v Union of India, the Karnataka High Court ruled against Twitter in its plea to quash the Government of India’s orders issued under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act and Rules (‘Blocking Orders’), asking it to disable the accounts of certain users. The judgement by Mr. Justice Krishna Dixit expansively interprets powers to block information under the IT Act and could dramatically increase executive leeway for censorship under India’s …