X vs Center: Karnaraka HC hears things on April 5 as Elon Musk’s platform challenges Govt’s commands to block content
The Karnataka High Court released a hearing on Elon Musk’s X Corp (formerly Twitter), which challenged the government’s order to cancel and block content on April 3.
The Karnataka High Court heard about this.
Platform X, owned by Elon Musk, challenges the central government’s order to remove or block content through the “Sahyog” portal. Tushar Mehta, a lawyer and substitute lawyer, requested that the matter be postponed today.
X Prosecution Center
Last week, Elon Musk’s X filed a petition with the Karnataka High Court, challenging the use of Article 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act.
X said in his petition that the government’s order not only paved the way for an illegal parallel content blockade process, but also violated the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Shreya Singhal case.
The 2015 judgment mentioned by X said that the content could be blocked only by a competent court order or a structured process under Section 69A.
Under Section 79(3)(b), an intermediary may lose its safe harbor (protecting these platforms from the liability of third-party content) if access to the content is not deleted or disabled after notification by the “proper” government or its agency.
X said the provision did not give the government the right to block content. The Elon Musk-owned company believes that government authorities are abused to bypass protection from Article 69A to provide a platform and arbitrarily delete content.
X Want “Sahyog” protection
In addition, X also sought protection from joining an employee on the government’s Sahyog portal, established by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) to “simplify” the orders of No. 79(3)(b).
X said the Sahyog portal is a “censorship portal.”
Elon Musk’s platform believes that there is no provision in the law to allow the creation of the Sahyog portal or to appoint officials to that portal.
