Twitter has also argued that the direction to block entire accounts falls afoul of Section 69A of the IT Act.
The ambit of ‘information’ that may be blocked under this provision extends only to blocking information that is available and does not extend to preventing information from being generated, transmitted, received, stored or hosted, the plea states.
“…Blocking Orders to withhold access to the entire account cannot be issued without providing cogent reasons as to why such account level blocking in necessary or expedient…account level blocking is a disproportionate measure and violates rights of users under the Constitution.”
Another argument made was that MEITY has not provided a notice to the originator of the content under Rule 8(1) of the Blocking Rules, as was mandated by the Supreme Court in Shreya Singhal v Union of India.
Source: Barandbench
