The Karnataka High Court sought the Union government’s response to X Corp’s plea challenging the Centre’s Sahyog portal, alleging authorities nationwide use it to issue online content takedown orders to intermediaries outside the statutory blocking procedures.
The Central Government of India has opposed X’s claims of censorship regarding its Sahyog portal, labeling them as baseless. In a court affidavit, the government asserted that X’s terminology is misleading and that the platform lacks fundamental rights under the Indian Constitution, emphasizing the conditional nature of safe harbour protections for intermediaries.
