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Elon Musk’s X ‘deeply concerned’ by Karnataka HC’s order favouring takedown portal Sahyog, to challenge it
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Central and state agencies and local police officers can issue blocking orders to social media platforms through the Sahyog portal.
Social media as a modern amphitheater of ideas cannot be left in a state of anarchic freedom,” he added.
He said that every sovereign nation has the right to regulate social media.
Justice Nagaprasanna said that X chooses to take content down in the US, but refuses to do so in India.
However, the Karnataka High Court said that the Shreya Singhal judgement could not be “transposed” into the present controversy.