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X says it will fight Indian court ruling on content takedown system
X said last week's Indian court ruling allows millions of police officers to issue "arbitrary" content takedown orders.
The portal “circumvents Section 69A of the IT Act, violates Supreme Court rulings, and infringes Indian citizens’ constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression,” X’s Global Government Affairs account wrote in a post on Monday. “The Sahyog enables officers to order content removal based solely on allegations of ‘illegality,’ without judicial review or due process for the speakers, and threatens platforms with criminal liability for non-compliance,” X wrote. In its ruling last week, the court rejected X’s “free speech” argument, saying that the social media platform, as a foreign company, does not have the constitutional right to freedom of expression under Indian law.
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