Content blocking orders by govt and courts to Twitter soar 48,000%

There has been a rise of more than 48,000 per cent in legal demands being made by India from various courts and the government to remove content from Twitter between 2014 and 2020, an analysis of Twitter's global transparency reports show.

Incidentally, in the same time period, the number of content blocking orders issued to social media companies by the government has also increased by almost 2,000 per cent, data shared with Parliament showed, highlighting the growing trend of online censorship in India.