X Calls Indian Compliance Website 'Censorship Tool'

Elon Musk-led social media platform X, has called an official Indian compliance website a ‘censorship tool’.

According to a Reuters report, India has on Friday criticised Elon Musk's X for wrongly labelling as a "censorship portal" an official website that allows tech companies to be notified about harmful online content, a lawsuit said.

This lawsuit also marks an escalation in a legal dispute between X and the Modi-led government on the basis of how it orders content to be taken down, especially at a crucial time when Musk is about to launch Starlink and Tesla in India.

Why Are The Indian Government And X Fighting?

X, in its new lawsuit filed on March 5 in the southern state of Karnataka, was seeking to quash the government's website initiative.

"The use of the said terminology by a worldwide portal like X is unfortunate and condemnable," the information technology ministry (MeitY) told the court.

It further added that the firm was raising a "groundless concern of censorship".

According to the Modi government, the new website was intended only to swiftly notify tech companies of their due diligence obligations and no blocking orders were issued.

India has unlawfully expanded its censorship powers to allow the removal of online content easily, according to X.

According to the social media platform, this gives "countless" government officials the power to execute such orders through the website which it described as a "censorship portal". 

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