Asked to block multiple accounts during farmers’ protests, Twitter tells Karnataka HC

Bangalore, 26/9: Twitter Inc on Monday told the High Court of Karnataka that during farmers’ protest in 2021 it was simply asked to block certain accounts. Senior advocate Aravind S Datar, appearing for Twitter in the petition questioning the blocking orders under section 69A of the Information Technology (IT) Act, said that the blocking orders will have to be tweet specific and cannot be stretched to a complete blocking of the accounts.