Social media platform X has sought to quash Karnataka Excessive Courtroom’s resolution that discovered it non-compliant with content material removing orders, arguing the ruling might embolden the federal government to dam extra content material.
X, previously generally known as Twitter, in July 2022 sought to overturn some authorities orders to take away content material from its platform, with out specifying which. The court docket in June 2023 quashed that request and imposed a wonderful of Rs. 50 lakh.
If X’s attraction is rejected, the federal government “shall be emboldened to difficulty extra blocking orders” that violate regulation, mentioned X’s 96 web page submitting submitted by native regulation agency Poovayya & Co.
X, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, mentioned within the submitting there should be “discernible parameters” on what mandates the blocking of a complete account as an alternative of a selected put up, in any other case the federal government’s “energy to censor future content material 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 vital of the federal government’s dealing with of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Musk rebranded Twitter as X final week, unveiling a brand for the social
“#GoodbyeTwitter” was trending on the platform on the subject of the outdated brand as a number of customers criticised the brand new one.
The unique Twitter brand was designed in 2012 by a staff of three. “The brand was designed to be easy, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, virtually like a lowercase “e”,” tweeted Martin Grasser, one of many designers.
Musk mentioned on Friday that month-to-month customers of X reached a “new excessive” and shared a graph that confirmed the most recent depend as over 540 million.
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