Govt On X's Censorship Charge: 'No Blocking Order Issued On July 3, X Exploited Technicalities'

New Delhi: The Government on Tuesday said that it has not issued any fresh blocking order on July 3, 2025 and has no intention to block any prominent international News Channels including Reuters and Reuters World.

The moment Reuters and Reuters World were blocked on X platform in India, immediately the government wrote to ‘X’ to unblock them.

The Government continuously engaged and vigorously pursued with ‘X’ from the late night of 5th July 2025.

‘X’ has unnecessarily exploited technicalities involved around the process and didn’t unblock the URLs.

However, after lot of follow-up on hourly basis, X has finally unblocked Reuters and other URLs after 9 pm on 6th July 2025. They took more than 21 hours to unblock Reuters.

The statement from government has come after X earlier today informed that it received a government order on July 3 to block 2,355 accounts and also mentioned that they were deeply concerned about ongoing press censorship in India due to these blocking orders.

“X is exploring all legal options available. Unlike users located in India, X is restricted by Indian law in its ability to bring legal challenges against these executive orders. We urge affected users to pursue legal remedies through the courts,” the statement reads.

X says order to block over 2000 accounts came from government 

Earlier today, X's issued a statement about blocking accounts on its platforms saying the order had come from the government including that of news outlets like Reuters and Reuters World.

The micro-blogging site X, formerly Twitter, informed that they were asked to block these accounts under Section 69A of the IT Act.

“Non-compliance risked criminal liability. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology demanded immediate action- within one hour- without providing justification, and required the accounts to remain blocked until further notice," X's Global Governance Affairs said.

“After public outcry, the government requested X to unblock @Reuters and @ReutersWorld," it said.

Reuters X account was blocked on July 3 around midnight, however, no reason was cited to block the account by Twitter.

A message on Reuters X page showed, “@Reuters has been withheld in INDIA in response to a legal demand" but there was no clarity on what that legal demand was.