Bengaluru, Nov. 16 -- X Corp has filed an appeal before the Karnataka high court challenging a single judge's decision that upheld the Union government's authority to issue content blocking directions through the central Sahyog portal, which is used to automate notices to intermediaries to remove unlawful online content.

The appeal, filed on November 14, seeks to overturn the judgment delivered on September 24, which had dismissed X Corp's plea questioning the scope of Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act, 2000.

The appeal is yet to be numbered by the High Court registry. Once it is numbered, it will come up for hearing before a division bench.

In its original petition fuled in March this year, challenging the union gover...