Why does x sue the Indian government as a musk woos fashion? | Elon Musk News

When Elon Musk met Narendra Modi in Washington in February in February, in February, the Spacex chief of Tesla handed Tesla to the Indian premiere of the gift and introduced him to their family. He described the fashion meeting as “very good.”

The fashion was in the United States to see President Donald Trump. In Modi’s meeting with men, the two discussed cooperation in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), space research, innovation and sustainable development, according to the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

But almost a month later, the Musk Social Media platform X filed a lawsuit against the Indian government, claiming that New Delhi illegally censortily censoring the content on the network.

The lawsuit comes with the edges of the musk closer to the launch of both Star and Tesla In India.

So why does X sue India just as Musk tries to charm the modia?

Why does x sue the Indian government?

In a lawsuit filed in the High Court of the South Indian State of Karnatak on March 5, X claimed that the Government of India uses an “inadmissible parallel mechanism” that blocks the content on the network, and also allows government officers and ministries to remove illegal internet content, bypassing the legal regulation of IT technology.

Section 69a Law on IT -in the country, adopted in October 2000, gives the Indian IT Ministry the right to remove internet content that is considered harmful to national security and “public decor”, but must follow the judicial procedure according to which the Ministry requires permission to remove internet content from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity). Meity examines the contents and then decides whether to censor it.

Now the Indian government has introduced a new mechanism to delete content – section 79 (3) (b) IT of the law that has a separate blocking process.

Section 79 (3) (B) allows you to remove the internet content after a simple notice from the Government official. The notifications of content removal can be sent via the Government “Sahyog” (meaning cooperation on English) portal without any form of court review.

The Indian Government requires social media platforms such as X to sign up for the Sahyog portal, but the social media platform claims to bear it with a “arbitrary censorship”.

“The new power of the legal censors they created [through the Sahyog portal] There is no protective measure such as the request of the appointed official who sends a request for censorship to the Central Government. Now that any government department can do this by appointing a clerk who can send the removal requests, as the Ministry of Railway Railways did earlier this year, when he ordered X to overthrow more than 200 videos on Stamped that took place in New Delhi in February, “Apar Gupta, lawyer and Internet freedom Foundation.

“Through the parallel system of censorship, the government has taken a illegal step. In this case, it is due to the claim that X has endured X,” Gupta added.

Bharatiya Janata (BJP) party member and former Minister IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar told the Indian news agency Asian News International: “India is a country where the law relates to everything. X is right to go to court.”

The case X against the Government was published by Indian media reports on March 20, and the next hearing is in the High Court in Karnataki on March 27.

Al Jazeera contacted the Indian IT Ministry and the ruling BJP party for comment.

Is the controversy because of the X chatbot that drives this case?

That doesn’t seem like that. While Meiti’s officers told the local media to talk to X about the content generated by the built -in chatbot platform of social media, Grok 3, lawsuit X preceded it.

In recent weeks, Grok has caused confusion in India, generating the content and answers to the questions of users that the ruling government of the BJP considers “abuse and controversial.”

When one x user “asked” Grok -whether the response of the Prime Minister Modi’s interviews, Chatbot replied: “Modi’s interviews often look scripted-ways are the answers polished, to Mesaga and rarely strayed out of the narrative. He is the first machine, using social media and controlled settings for the design of his image, as seen with his heavy multimedia strategy since 2014. Real improvised moments?”

Gupta said: “There has been a high level of self -censorship in India, as well as an increase in what is called digital authoritarianism, in which many people are not free to say what they want to say. Grok gives them the opportunity to ask questions critical of the Union Government, and especially Chatbot, based on articles, which is based on data on data, which includes Wicipedia.

“But in their root, people have to understand that Grok is mostly AI who is dressed for public resources and what he claims can also reflect misinformation and can suffer from bias,” he added.

“There is no connection between the submission of the case and the Grok response that create a viral trend. The only relationship is that the same Ministry of Government [MeitY] It is turned on, “he added.

What does this mean for x users in India?

Gupta said it was too early to say what the impact of the outcome of the case would be for X users in the country.

“There have always been friction for users in India between the Government and the great platforms of social media. The reason for this is that the Government often does not follow the constitutional borders set on them and requires censorship for political reasons. So every return on platforms eventually supports the cause of free expression, which is very well in closed societies, where it is very high level of Cenzure.

“But in this case, X also has a historical problem that it is not more transparent with the way it decides and determines its modernism of content of content, and at globally the X has ceased to report on the Government’s removal requirements, which used to be sent before the menu of men.

Will the Laws of X Say the prospect of a male in India?

That’s unlikely, experts say. Michael Kugelman, Director of the South Asia Institute at Wilson Center, a research center based in Washington, told Al Jazeera that Musk operates with “lots of influence” in India, thanks to his wealth and investment capital, which is ready to arrange in the high growth industry, such as telecommunications and renewed materials.

Musk also appointed Trump to run the New Ministry of the Government of the US Government (Doge) and announced a reduction in federal jobs and claimed to have established billion dollars of waste and fraud in state consumption.

“His proximity to Trump further increases this influence. So, he has great freedom because he wants without the risk of alienating New Delhi. He can hit Starlink and Tesla, while acting on the principle of” absolutism of free speech “on social media,” he said. He He has already reached agreements with telecommunications companies in India to provide Starlink services and talked to others. Plans are also underway to introduce a Tesla production base in the country.

Similarly, the impact of this suit on the overall connections of the USA will be small, he said. “Given all the different traces of cooperation playing in the relationship, as given all the goodwill in which it enjoys, this X PUS is at its best, and the worst case of annoyance. Not to mention, the huge Indian market is too attractive to withdraw,” he added.

“So, no matter how the legal procedure is played, X will want to stretch it in India. This obligation to reside can also help to remove possible bilateral tensions.”