BENGALURU: Karnataka HC dismissed Wednesday a petition from Elon Musk's X Corp against content takedowns, ruling that American free speech standards can't be transplanted into Indian constitutional thought and no global platform can evade the nation's laws. It said social media is "a modern amphitheatre of ideas" that cannot be left to "anarchic freedom". "Regulation is a must, more so in cases of offences against women, failing which the right to dignity as ordained in the Constitution gets railroaded," Justice M Nagaprasanna said. "Unregulated speech under the guise of liberty becomes a licence to lawlessness." The court held that Art 19(1)(a) of Constitution - free speech and expression - is subject to restrictions under Article 19(2). "Noble in spirit and luminous in promise, it r

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