The Indian government regularly bans websites and social media accounts and has resorted to hundreds of internet blackouts to prevent the spread of information in the past.
It also pressures companies into handing over peoples' information to law enforcement when requested. These rules force companies to censor content according to whatever the administration deems illicit or harmful to public order. In 2021, the Indian government introduced new legislation known as Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules. Over the last few years, India's administration has handed itself increasingly extreme authoritarian powers of control over the internet.
