Twitter Says 50-60 Percent of Tweets in Government Takedown Orders Are ‘Innocuous’: Details

Twitter on Monday argued that 50 to 60 per cent of tweets that are asked by the government to be blocked are “innocuous”, while challenging the Central government’s orders asking it to block some accounts, URLs and tweets on the microblogging platform. The company cited the Supreme Court in the landmark Shreya Singhal case where the IT Act blocking rules were upheld a…