Bengaluru, July 12 -- X Corp on Friday told the Karnataka high court that while it was not opposed to regulation, all restrictions on digital speech must strictly conform to existing law. Objecting to the Union government's directive mandating social media platforms to join the Sahyog Portal -- a centralised system for content takedown requests, the platform argued that the portal enables arbitrary censorship by executive authorities, in violation of constitutional safeguards and Supreme Court precedents. Senior advocate KG Raghavan, who appeared for the microblogging platform, told the court the officials empowered by the Sahyog Portal to issue take down notices to social media intermediaries, were "misusing" the takedown regime under the Information Technology (IT) Act that outlines conditions under which intermediaries can lose their safe harbour protection. These officers, Raghavan argued, were performing "judicial functions," leading to "arbitrary and opaque censorship" of online content. The senior advocate also argued that Rule 3(1)(d) gives the government a "backdoor mechanism to control online content."...