[AIR 2015 SC 1523]
Landmark judgment in which the court struck down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 for being violative of the freedom of speech and expression under Article 19(1)(a).
On the issue of intermediary liability, the court read down Section 79 of the IT Act and held that the ‘actual knowledge’ requirement for an intermediary to take down content has to be read to mean either an intimation in the form of a court order or on being notified by the government.
