The High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday asked the Union government to respond to a new plea by X Corp (formerly Twitter) for re-examining the blocking orders passed earlier and pass fresh ‘reasoned orders’ for blocking posts and accounts.
A Division Bench comprising Justice G. Narendar and Justice Vijayakumar A. Patil told the advocate representing the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to get a response from the Ministry on the proposal made on behalf of X Corp for re-examination of blocking orders.
The Bench was hearing an appeal filed by X Corp questioning the single judge’s June 30 verdict of upholding blocking orders passed against X for removing objectionable posts and blocking accounts under the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
