Social media platform X has sought to quash Karnataka High Court’s determination that discovered it non-compliant with content material elimination orders, arguing the ruling may embolden the federal government to dam extra content material.
X, previously referred to as Twitter, in July 2022 sought to overturn some authorities orders to take away content material from its platform, with out specifying which. The courtroom in June 2023 quashed that request and imposed a tremendous of Rs. 50 lakh.
If X’s enchantment is rejected, the federal government “will be emboldened to issue more blocking orders” that violate regulation, stated X’s 96 web page submitting submitted by native regulation agency Poovayya & Co.
X, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, stated within the submitting there have to be “discernible parameters” on what mandates the blocking of a complete account as a substitute of a particular submit, in any other case the federal government’s “power to censor future content is untrammeled”.
X in earlier years has been requested by Indian authorities to behave on content material together with accounts deemed supportive of an unbiased Sikh state, posts alleged to have unfold misinformation about protests by farmers, and tweets essential of the federal government’s dealing with of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Musk rebranded Twitter as X final week, unveiling a emblem for the social
“#GoodbyeTwitter” was trending on the platform close to the previous emblem as a number of customers criticised the brand new one.
The unique Twitter emblem was designed in 2012 by a crew of three. “The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase “e”,” tweeted Martin Grasser, one of many designers.
Musk stated on Friday that month-to-month customers of X reached a “new high” and shared a graph that confirmed the most recent rely as over 540 million.
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