Shreya Singhal, who was among the first to ask India’s courts to toss out a law criminalizing “grossly offensive” content online, said she thought hate speech and defamation should still be considered ...

The Supreme Court’s 2015 judgment upheld the constitutionality of Section 69A of the Information and Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act)—which gives the government powers to block online content on various ...

The Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 judgment in Shreya Singhal vs Union of India addressed a bygone regime and cannot be “mechanically applied” to the 2021 Information Technology rules that demand their ...

Today is a good day for freedom of speech in India. The country’s Supreme Court struck down an ambiguous law that could be used to imprison citizens for content they post online. NDTV reports that ...

The Karnataka High Court, in the X Corp case, upheld the constitutional validity of Sahyog Portal and observed that social ...

“From the starting point, [Justice Neela Gokhale’s] entire discussion [regarding the Fact-Check Unit or FCU] is underpinned on a misconception of what [the petitioner’s] argument is [regarding the FCU ...

Elon Musk-owned social media company X said that it was “deeply concerned” by Karnataka HC’s order favouring takedown portal Sahyog and that it would file an appeal against it. What is the portal all ...

“As I teach my students at Stanford, Shreya Singhal was one of the defining rulings of modern internet law,” wrote Daphne Keller, director of intermediary liability at Stanford University’s Center for ...

The High Court called the Sahyog portal 'an instrument of public good,' which 'stands as a beacon of cooperation' between citizens and social media intermediaries, through which the State endeavours ...

X Corp on Friday accused the Union government of using the “innocuously named” Sahyog portal as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” to issue illegal content blocking orders that bypass statutory safeguards, ...