India, March 20 -- Social media platform X, previously known as Twitter, has moved the Karnataka high court challenging the Indian government's use of Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act.

Section 79 lays down conditions for an intermediary to claim safe harbour protections from liability for third-party content. Section 79(3)(b) says that such protection is not available if the intermediary fails to remove or disable access upon being informed by the "appropriate" government or "its agency".

In its plea before the Karnataka high court, X has argued that the provision not only sets up an "illegal parallel content-blocking process" but also violates the Supreme Court's 2015 Shreya Singhal judgment.

The judgment declared th...