Children addicted to social media, user age limit needed: Karnataka HC

It would be suitable if an age limit was introduced for using social media akin to a legal age for drinking alcohol, the Karnataka High Court said on Tuesday. The court added that the school-going children are addicted to it.

A division bench of Justices G Narendar and Vijaykumar A Patil observed while hearing an appeal by X Corp (formerly Twitter) challenging the single judge order of June 30, which had dismissed its plea to the takedown orders issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY).

MeiTY had, under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act between February 2, 2021 and February 28, 2022, issued ten orders directing the social media platform to block 1,474 accounts, 175 Tweets, 256 URLs and one hashtag.