Bengaluru, Sept. 24 -- The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday rejected a petition by Elon Musk's X Corp, formerly known as Twitter, which sought to challenge the authority of government officials to issue information blocking orders.

X Corp had argued that Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act, 2000, did not empower officials to issue blocking orders.

Instead, the company maintained that only Section 69A, read with the IT (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking Access of Information by Public) Rules, 2009, offered the proper legal framework.

The platform had also sought to prevent ministries from taking coercive action based on Section 79(3)(b) and requested interim protection from joining the government's Sahyog portal.

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