The famous social media platform X which was formerly known as twitter, which is now acquired by Elon Musk, declared that, they will withhold or restrain some posts or pictures in India following executive orders from the Indian government.

In an official post, the Global Government Affairs, an affiliate of X, has stated, “The Indian government has issued executive orders requiring X to act on specific accounts and posts, subject to potential penalties including significant fines and imprisonment. We will withhold these accounts and posts in India alone; however, we disagree with these actions and maintain that freedom of expression should extend to these posts.”

The company also added that, “Consistent with our position, a writ appeal challenging the Indian government’s blocking orders remains pending.” It has already appealed to Karnataka High court’s 2023 order imposing a 50 lakh fine on the company for not complying with the emergency blocking orders issued during the 2021 farmers’ protest.

In today’s post X has stated, “We have also provided the impacted users with notice of these actions in accordance with our policies.” On the other hand, multiple users whose posts and accounts have been withheld in India reported that, they did not receive any mail from the company informing them about their content being blocked.

As per the order of February 19, 177 links and accounts were blocked. They include 42 X accounts and 49 links. Before Musk came in, Twitter and the Indian government were in big tussel over the blocking of content. In some cases, Twitter did not comply with the government directives to blocking accounts and posts. The public spat reached its peak during the farmer protests a few years ago.

Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, said, Indian Government is threating us in such a way, so that we can shut Twitter down in India, which is very much large market. We will raid the homes of your employees.

Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had said the high court had upheld the government's stand on the matter, adding that "the law of the land must be followed."

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