{"id":965565,"date":"2025-10-01T11:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T05:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=965565"},"modified":"2025-10-01T12:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:27:36","slug":"x-to-appeal-against-karnataka-hc-verdict-dismissing-petition-against-govt-takedown-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/01\/x-to-appeal-against-karnataka-hc-verdict-dismissing-petition-against-govt-takedown-order\/","title":{"rendered":"X to appeal against Karnataka HC verdict dismissing petition against Govt takedown order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media platform X will appeal against the Karnataka High Court\u2019s verdict dismissing its petition challenging the authority of Government officials to issue content takedown orders under the Information Technology Act. Elon Musk-owned X through its official handle said orders issued by police officers to arbitrarily take down content from its platform through a \u201csecretive online portal called the Sahyog\u201d is a violation of Indian citizens\u2019 constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cX respects and complies with Indian law, but this order fails to address the core constitutional issues in our challenge and is inconsistent with the Bombay High Court\u2019s recent ruling that a similar regime was unconstitutional,\u201d the social media platform said on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media platform X will appeal against the Karnataka High Court\u2019s verdict dismissing its petition challenging the authority of Government officials to issue content takedown orders under the Information Technology Act. Elon Musk-owned X through its official handle said orders issued by police officers to arbitrarily take down content from its platform through a \u201csecretive online portal called the Sahyog\u201d is a violation of Indian citizens\u2019 constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression. \u201cX respects and complies with Indian law, but this order fails to address the core constitutional issues in our challenge and is inconsistent with the Bombay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}