Delhi Police asks X to remove accounts of digital rights groups IFF, SFLC
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The Delhi Police asked social media platform X to take down the accounts and posts of digital rights groups Internet Freedom Foundation and the Software Freedom Law Center on the grounds that they allegedly defamed the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the organisations said on Tuesday.
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The RSS is the parent organisation of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
The posts document and comment on a legal notice sent in the name of the RSS to the two digital rights groups and an X account Geo Blocked in India, which compiles blocking orders in the country.
The notice had demanded that the three accounts stop criticising and documenting blocking orders issued by the government, the Internet Freedom Foundation said.
The foundation said that X had on Tuesday forwarded to it the copies of the two take down orders by the police. The organisation said it will challenge the notices in court if the police did not withdraw them.
The notices
On October 29, the Internet Freedom Foundation, the Software Freedom Law Center and the operator of Geo Blocked in India “received a ‘legal notice’ said to be issued on behalf of the RSS”, the foundation said.
The notice asked the three to stop opposing the government’s blocking directions, stop documenting restricted content, stop posting details of geo-blocked posts and confirm within a week...