Twitter Challenges Center's 'Takedown' Orders

Social media company, Twitter has challenged 39 blocking orders issued by the centre in a petition filed at the Karnataka High Court. The company cites failure in passing the proportionality tests for its challenge at the High Court. 

The Ministry of Electronics, and Information Technology (MeitY) had ordered the social media intermediary, to block 1,474 accounts, 256 uniform resource locators (URLs), 175 tweets, and one hashtag, between February 2, 2021 and February 28, 2022, the company said in its court submission. 

In the submission, the company also states that in une 2022 the IT ministry issued further orders asking it to block 10 accounts and 27 URLs from its platform. These orders were eventually withdrawn, following meetings between Twitter’s Chief Compliance Officer Vinay Prakash and ministry officials.