After greater than a yr of rising tensions over the nation’s sweeping 2021 IT regulation, Twitter is suing India’s authorities. the corporate filed a criticism on Tuesday with the Karnataka High Court in Bangalore to problem a current order to censor content material inside the nation. According to Twitter, it had till Monday to dam a couple of dozen accounts and posts or face potential prison motion. While the corporate complied with the order, it’s now additionally in search of authorized aid.

Twitter declined to remark. The problem comes after the corporate reportedly the Indian authorities final summer time it was compliant with the nation’s IT guidelines. As a part of the regulation, Twitter was required to rent a home compliance officer and a .

Before that time, Twitter’s relationship with India had been strained for a lot of 2021. In February, the federal government to jail Twitter workers until the corporate eliminated content material associated to the farmer protests held that yr. Two months later, India ordered Twitter to tug tweets that criticized the nation’s response to the .

More lately, the federal government ordered Twitter to dam tweets from , a nonprofit group that India was an instance of a rustic the place freedom of the press is on the decline. “Freedom House is concerned that the Indian government ordered Twitter to restrict our tweets last year,” the group stated. “We think that both governments and tech companies should uphold free expression, privacy and other fundamental freedoms.”