Twitter Challenging Content Removal Orders Is Suing The Indian Government
The suit, filed in the Karnataka High Court in Bangalore, comes after the government threatened criminal action against Twitter executives if they did not comply with the order, the company said. The company had been given a deadline on Monday to block dozens of accounts and posts from being viewed within India. He complied, but then sought injunctive relief. The Indian government urged Twitter to follow the rules. “It is everyone’s responsibility to comply with the laws passed by the country’s parliament,” Ashwini Vaishnaw, minister for electronics and information technology, told a press conference on Tuesday....