The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition filed by social media platform X against Sahyog, a portal set up by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre to “streamline” orders to take down content, Bar and Bench reported.

X has described this portal as a “ censorship portal ”, and claimed that the Information Technology Act does not contain any provision to create such a portal, or to require social platforms to appoint a nodal officer for it.

On Wednesday, Justice M Nagaprasanna upheld the portal’s validity and stressed the need for regulatory oversight of social media platforms operating in India, highlighting that “social media as a modern amphitheatre of ideas cannot be left in a state of anarchic freedom”.

The court ruled that the portal is “far from bein

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