New Delhi: The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday dismissed a batch of petitions by micro-blogging site X (formerly Twitter) and Digipub, a collective of 92 media organisations, which raised concerns over freedom of speech and transparency in the aftermath of the Centre introducing its ‘Sahyog’ portal last year.

In doing so, a bench of Justice M. Nagaprasanna said, “The march of civilisation has borne witness to the inescapable truth that information and communication, its spread or its speed, has never been left unchecked and unregulated.”

Saying that information has always been regulated, whether in the early days through messengers or post, or in the digital age of WhatsApp, Instagram and Snapchat, the court said that effectively, all forms of information have been regulated by regime

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