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Gautam Gambhir moves Delhi High Court against deepfakes, seeks Rs 2.5 crore damagesCricketer Gautam Gambhir has filed a lawsuit in Delhi High Court. He seeks protection for his identity against fake videos and unauthorised...- X appeals Karnataka HC order upholding Sahyog portalThe petition asked the court to declare the government’s new reading of Section 79 and the use of Rule 3(1)(d) ultra vires (beyond legal po...
- Solicitor general defends govt’s takedown regime in X HC caseThe Indian government defended Rule 3(1)(d) of the IT Rules in the Karnataka High Court, stating it flags illegal online content to interme...
- Wikimedia must remove India content deemed defamatory, court rulesAn Indian court has ordered the removal of allegedly defamatory statements from Wikipedia regarding a domestic news agency, ANI. The Wikime...
- Elon Musk's X takes down political posts of AAP, Jagan Reddy's party on EC order, but says we don't agreeThe Election Commission of India (ECI) has instructed Elon Musk's social media platform X to remove posts containing political speeches fro...
- India had longest internet shutdown in 2023: reportAccording to a report by virtual private network tracker Top 10VPN, India imposed an internet shutdown of over 5,000 hours in Manipur alone...
- X disagrees with govt blocking orders for certain posts and accounts, but compliesTwitter said that in compliance with the orders, it will withhold the accounts and posts in India only on government's orders, but expresse...
- Govt's order to block accounts violation of freedom of speech: TwitterThe counsel for Twitter also told the Karnataka High Court that there were no provisions under section 69 of the Information Technology Act...
- Twitter bans 43,140 accounts in India for violating normsTwitter said it purged 40,982 accounts for child sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity and similar content and banned 2,158 accounts f...
- Twitter-ministry hearing in Karnataka HC adjourned till August 25The plea, listed for hearing on Tuesday, was adjourned as the counsel for the central government was unavailable.
- Twitter takedown orders proportional to user base: MeitY“India's 17,338 Legal demands between 2012 and 2021 account for 7% of the global legal demands (amounting) to 225,076 worldwide,” an intern...
- Twitter takes down filmmaker Leena Manimekalai’s controversial tweetThe US-based microblogging site revealed this in a report to Lumen Database, a repository of legal complaints and requests for removal of o...
- Twitter takes down Leena Manimekalai's Goddess Kali tweet on govt requestThe Canada-based filmmaker has been in embroiled in a controversy after a poster of her film depicted Indian Goddess Kali smoking a cigaret...
- Twitter moves high court against govt ordersThe legal move follows the expiry of the July 4 deadline requiring the American microblogging platform to comply with directives issued by ...
- Twitter sues Indian govt, says content takedown orders is abuse of powerTwitter's attempt to get a judicial review is part of a growing confrontation with the Indian government over content regulation.
- Twitter sues Indian govt; ED raids Vivo offices in money-laundering caseLast week we reported that the Indian government had given Twitter until July 4 to heed its takedown requests or lose immunity from prosecu...
- In heated meeting, India seeks tougher action from US tech giants on fake newsThe officials, from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B), strongly criticised the companies and said their inaction on fake n...
- 'Not aligned with our view of freedom of speech': US frowns over Modi government request to remove online postsTwitter and other social media platforms have taken down around 100 posts and URLs after the government asked them to remove content that w...
- HC judgment on taking down web content could complicate compliance for global platformsAt present, when a platform receives a takedown order in India, it blocks that particular piece of content geographically. This means the c...
- With 408 court orders and 310 requests, Turkey leads the world in Twitter censorshipTwitter received 408 court orders and 310 requests from government authorities to remove content 'based on violations of personal rights an...
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