News Karnataka HC Adjourns Hearing in Twitter-Government Standoff, Next date January 9 Hearing adjourned after Central Government's request for more time to argue its case on Twitter’s challenging of Section 69A blocking orders Aarathi GanesanDecember 12, 2022
News VideoLAN’s Website Is Up and Running Again: Here’s What We Know About the Unblocking MeitY had blocked VideoLAN's website without any official explanation and has now restored it, showing how opaque Section 69A blocking orders can be Aarathi GanesanNovember 15, 2022
News Reasons for Blocking Under Section 69A Must Be Recorded and Communicated with Aggrieved: Twitter at the Karnataka HC Twitter argued in the Karnataka HC that the reasons for blocking content under Section 69A must be specified and communicated by the govt Aarathi GanesanOctober 28, 2022
News Indian Government’s Section 69A Orders Affect User and Intermediary Rights, Argues Twitter at Karnataka HC Hearing continued in Twitter's writ petition against some of the Indian government's orders to block content and accounts Aarathi GanesanOctober 18, 2022
News Indian government did not follow Procedure While Issuing Blocking Directions: Twitter to Karnataka HC The Karnataka High Court continued hearing a petition by Twitter India challengeing content blocking orders under IT Act Section 69 (A) Akshit ChawlaSeptember 26, 2022
News Twitter vs. Government on Section 69A Orders: Next hearing on September 26th, says Karnataka HC The Karnataka High Court will next hear Twitter’s challenge to 39 blocking orders issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) under Section... Aarathi GanesanSeptember 8, 2022
News ‘Wikipedia Executives’ Questioned by MeitY Over ‘Khalistani’ Edits Made to Arshdeep Singh’s Page However, many said that this shows that the ministry (MeitY) does not understand how editing and content creation actually works on Wikipedia Aarathi GanesanSeptember 6, 2022
News Indian Government Pushes to Dismiss Twitter 69A Challenge, Highlights ‘Miserable’ Non-Compliance with Indian Laws The Union government said that the writ petition by Twitter should be dismissed since it is not an Indian citizen, calling it "luxury litigation" Aarathi GanesanSeptember 2, 2022
News India’s I&B ministry blocks eight YouTube channels for ‘spreading fake news’ Eight YouTube channels with over 85 lakh subscribers have been blocked by MIB in India, citing 'fake news' and 'promoting enmity' MitakshAugust 18, 2022
News MeitY’s Review Committee Hasn’t Revoked A Single Section 69A Order Since 2009, RTI Reveals Its lack of independence can be a factor, even as Section 69A of the IT Act has been criticized for sweeping internet censorship powers Aarathi GanesanAugust 11, 2022