New Delhi: The Indian government on Tuesday said that all internet intermediaries and social media platforms will have to comply with the law of the land as Twitter moved the Karnataka High Court against an order to remove certain content on its platform. Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajiv Chandrashekhar said in a tweet that all foreign intermediaries and platforms have the right to approach court and judicial review in India. Chandrashekhar posted, “But equally, all intermediaries/platforms operating here have an explicit obligation to comply with our laws and regulations.”
IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that “whatever company it is, in any field, they should follow the laws of India”. ,ALSO READ: Twitter moves Karnataka High Court, challenges Centre’s order to remove content,
Earlier in the day, Twitter moved the Karnataka High Court against the Government of India’s order to remove certain content on its platform, on the grounds that the IT ministry’s order to block content was “on the grounds provided for under section 69A”. test” do not pass. of the IT Act”.
Sources told IANS, Twitter, in its writ petition, alleged that many of the accounts and content included in the blocking order are either “broad and arbitrary”, fail to give notice to the “promoters” of the content, and in many cases “proportionate”. more than”, sources told IANS.
In a June letter, the IT ministry had warned Twitter of strict action if it did not comply with orders to remove certain content. Twitter has now sought judicial review of some of the content that is a part of various blocking orders, seeking relief from the court to quash these blocking orders. ,ALSO READ: Twitter bans over 46,000 bad accounts in India in May 2022,
“These restraining orders are being challenged on the ground that they are procedural and substantially lacking in Section 69A requirements,” read the writ petition.