Wikimedia challenges India content takedown, warns of chilling effect on free speech


FILE PHOTO: Wikipedia webpage in use on a laptop computer is seen in this photo illustration taken in Washington, January 17, 2012. REUTERS/Gary Cameron/File Photo

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, has asked India's Supreme Court to quash its order directing the online encyclopedia operator to take down a page describing its legal dispute with a domestic news agency.

Wikimedia told the court that complying with the directive would have a "chilling effect on free speech".

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