India, Sept. 24 -- The Karnataka high court on Wednesday rejected a petition filed by social media platform X Corp challenging the Centre's direction to social media platforms to join the central Sahyog portal set up to issue content takedown orders.

Justice M Nagaprasanna said that content on social media needed to be regulated, and the court did not find merit in the issues raised by X Corp.

"From the orient to the occidant, the march of civilisation has borne witness to the inescapable truth that the spread and speed of information and communication has never been left unchecked or unregulated. It has always been subject to regulation," Justice Nagaprasanna said.

"As and when technology developed from messengers to the postal age to...