The Karnataka High Court has suggested that the Central government could consider assessing a minimal age limit for the use of social media platforms to cover children from its implicit damages. This suggestion was made by a bench comprising Justice G Narender and Justice Vijaykumar A Patil during a hail about the troubles associated with exposing children to social media. The bench expressed enterprises about the dependence of school going children to social media and suggested that enforcing a stoner age limit could be salutary. The court proposed that the age limit for social media operation should be at least 21 times, the age at which individualities gain the right to bounce. The oral reflections were made during the hail of an appeal by X Corp (formerly Twitter) concerning the Indian government’s orders for blocking certain tweets and accounts in 2021 and 2022. The court is anticipated to advertise its order on the interlocutory operations related to the case soon. The counsel representing the Central government informed the court that current regulations bear druggies to give Aadhaar and other identification documents to pierce certain online games. The court questioned why analogous measures weren’t extended to social media platforms and suggested that similar regulations could be considered. The court also expressed enterprises about interposers like X Corp facing legal pitfalls from account holders if they’re ordered to take down posts or accounts while maintaining confidentiality. It suggested that rules might need to be acclimated to cover interposers and insure they aren’t left vulnerable to execution. likewise, the court emphasized that interposers like X Corp shouldn’t be anticipated to make private judgments about which posts or accounts to take down. Rather, they should only be needed to assess whether the content in question violates applicable vittles of the Information Technology Act, 2000. The case originally began with Twitter challenging certain blocking orders issued by the Indian government. A single- judge of the Karnataka High Court had rejected Twitter’s challenge and assessed a forfeiture of ₹ 50 lakhs for alleged detainments in complying with block demands. Twitter, now X Corp, has since complied with utmost of the demands but expressed enterprises about the lack of reasons handed for over 1,000 tweets ordered to be taken down.
Written by Shaikh Rizwan, Government Law College, Mumbai , 2nd Year, intering under Legal Vidhiya.
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