Govt’s order to block accounts violation of freedom of speech: Twitter

Twitter Indian on Monday told the Karnataka High Court that the central government’s order on blocking accounts from the platform would amount to a violation of freedom of speech and expression guaranteed to Indian citizens under Article 19 A.

The high court was hearing a petition moved by Twitter challenging the take-down orders issued by the central government between February 2021 and June 2022.

Arguing that while television and print media was allowed to showcase the events that were happening during the farmer-led protests that happened in and around New Delhi and the National Capital Region during January 2021, Twitter was asked to block accounts which were tweeting news regarding it.