Karnataka High Court rejects Twitter plea against govt blocking orders

The Karnataka High Court (HC) on Friday dismissed Twitter’s plea against the central government’s orders to take down content and block accounts on the microblogging platform, and fined it Rs. 50 lakh citing its conduct.

Justice Krishna S Dixit said in his order that Twitter has ‘demonstrably adopted a tactical approach to delay compliance and that shows its intent to remain non-compliant to Indian law’.

Twitter had appealed in the HC against 10 blocking orders by the Centre for taking down 39 URLs between February 2021 and February 2022.