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India’s IT ministry has unlawfully expanded
censorship powers to allow the easier removal of online content and empowered
“countless” government officials to execute such orders, Elon Musk’s X has
alleged in a new lawsuit against New Delhi. The lawsuit and the allegations mark an escalation in an ongoing legal
dispute between X and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government over how New
Delhi orders content to be taken down. It also comes as Musk is getting closer
to launching his other key ventures Starlink and Tesla in India.
In the new court
filing dated March 5, X argues India’s IT Ministry is asking other departments
to use a government website launched by the Ministry of Home Affairs last year
to issue content blocking orders and mandate social media companies to join the
website too. This mechanism, X says,
does not contain the stringent Indian legal safeguards on content removal that
required such orders to be issued in cases such as harm to sovereignty or public
order, and came with strict oversight of top officials.
India’s IT ministry
redirected a Reuters’ request for comment to the home affairs ministry, which
did not respond.
