HC: Social media user must get govt order of content blocking
Chandigarh, Oct. 21 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has held that intimation of a takedown/blocking order of a social media channel/page communicated to a platform by the government must also be sent to the user.
The order came from the bench of Justice Tribhuvan Dahiya on a plea by Haryana 24 News Network Private Limited, a news platform in Haryana, which approached the High Court after Meta, acting under the Information Technology Act, 2000, blocked its page in India following a Haryana Police order on August 21.
The court said that under the 2000 law and the rules made thereunder -- the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 -- there is no provision for giving a hearing to the user...
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