News Delhi HC Directs Facebook and Social Media Cos to Take Down “Compromising” Videos of Uttarakhand MLA and A Woman Despite being subject to a police investigation, the videos were later broadcast by a rival politician during a press conference and then posted online. Aarathi GanesanDecember 19, 2023
News Indian Government Declines to Accept Disclaimer in Case Against Blocking of Satirical Website “Dowry Calculator” Thakur's current case challenges the IT Ministry's insistence on blocking the Dowry Calculator website—whether in 2018 or 2022. Aarathi GanesanOctober 13, 2023
News Karnataka HC Asks IT Ministry If It’s Open to Reviewing Blocking Orders Issued to X Corp: Report Appearing for X Corp, Senior Advocate Sajjan Poovayya said that while the platform has blocked the requested accounts, they still lack reasoning. Aarathi GanesanSeptember 21, 2023
News Breaking: Karnataka HC Dismisses Twitter’s Petition Challenging Government’s Content Blocking Orders The verdict brings to an end months of hearings on the constitutionality of government censorship on the Indian Internet Aarathi GanesanJune 30, 2023
News RTI: Nearly 5,000 URLs blocked under Section 69A in the first 10 months of 2022 The first 10 months of 2022 accounted for a little over 20 percent of the content taken down in the last seven years. Vallari SanzgiriFebruary 3, 2023
News MeitY Issues Document Proposing Changes To IT Rules 2021, Then Withdraws It Nearly a year after it was enacted, an amendment to the controversial IT Rules 2021 was proposed and swiftly withdrawn. Here's what it said. Anushka JainJune 2, 2022
News Deep Dive: The legality of India’s new cybersecurity directive Lawyers weigh in on whether the directive is ultra vires. Sarvesh MathiMay 26, 2022
News VLC’s website has been down for over two months in India There's still no clear reason why it might have been blocked. MitakshMay 19, 2022
News In a first, IT Ministry asked to share order for blocking website Such orders under section 69A are usually kept under wraps. Anushka JainMay 19, 2022
News IT Ministry takes exception to The Wire’s tweet on election fraud Twitter has defied such takedown requests in the past but it ended badly. Anushka JainMay 3, 2022