In rejecting social media platform X’s plea against the Central Government’s Sahyog portal, the Karnataka High Court also drew some key red lines for social media companies operating in India: that regulation of speech on platforms is a given and it can not be left unchecked, India’s law is unique to the country’s context where American judicial thought can not be transplanted, “laws of the land” would have to be followed by companies, and that the landmark 2015 Shreya Singhal judgement can not be used as a lens to interpret the changed regulatory needs of today.

The High Court even 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 to combat the growing m

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