New Delhi: A new court submission by the Centre has shown that the home ministry’s Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) had warned social media platform X to take down over 80 posts including those by Congress leaders Srinivas B.V., Supriya Shrinate and Jairam Ramesh, a day after Amit Shah’s remarks on B.
R. Ambedkar had landed him in a controversy last year. The MHA also came to the rescue of Jay Shah at least twice last year, asking X to take down content “targeting” him.
These are a part of 66 government notices issued to ‘X’ over the last year. The Centre’s submission detailing the notices came as a response to a challenge filed by ‘X’ earlier this month. The social media platform is challenging the government’s use of Section 79 (safe harbour provision exempting intermediaries from liability in certain cases) of the Information Technology Act, 2000, to “take down” content on the platform.
In a 90-minute reply in the Rajya Sabha debate on the ‘Glorious Journey of 75 years of the Constitution of India’ on 17 December 2024, Home Minister Amit Shah said, “It has become a fashion to say ‘Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar’. If they had taken God’s name so many times, they would have got a place in heaven.” On 18 December, the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre flagged 81 posts on Amit Shah’s speech in two notices to ‘X’.
One notice listed 28 posts while another listed 53. Pointing out that the post.
