Bengaluru, April 3 -- The Karnataka High Court on Thursday refused to grant interim relief to social media giant X Corp in its plea challenging the central government's mandatory onboarding directive for the Sahyog portal.
Justice M Nagaprasanna, while hearing the matter, observed that there was no immediate reason for X Corp to be apprehensive of coercive action by the government. The Court noted that liberty had already been granted to the company on March 17 to approach the Court in case of any such action.
The Sahyog portal is a government platform used to issue orders for blocking online content. X Corp argued that these takedown orders do not follow the legal safeguards required under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2...