Twitter moves HC against govt orders

New Delhi: Twitter India has filed a writ petition in the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday, challenging certain notices and content takedown orders issued by the Union government, people directly aware of the development told ET.

The legal move follows the expiry of the July 4 deadline requiring the American microblogging platform to comply with directives issued by the ministry of electronics & information technology (MeitY).

The social intermediary approached the courts as it found several of the blocking orders issued by the information technology ministry “overboard and arbitrary, failed to provide notice to originators of the content” and were “disproportionate in several cases,” according to sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity.