Bengaluru: Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as ‘X’ on Monday (September 29) released a statement expressing concern over the Karnataka High Court’s recent order over its plea challenging Centre's authority to takedown social media content. The social media platform said that the HC’s order would allow police officers to issue arbitrary takedown orders through ‘Sahyog’ portal. X also said that it will continue to appeal to defend "free expression".

X is deeply concerned by the recent order from the Karnataka court in India, which will allow millions of police officers to issue arbitrary takedown orders through a secretive online portal called the Sahyog," the statement read.

"This new regime has no basis in the law, circumvents Section 69A of the IT Act, violates Supre

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