In 2012, the company actively petitioned against Section 66A of the Indian IT Act and the Intermediary Guideline Rules, leading to their eventual scrapping and reading down by the Supreme Court of India.
[7] In 1998, while attending State University of New York at Binghamton, Faisal Farooqui conceived the idea of a review website.
[11][12] During the year 2001, his team implemented the Dial-the-CEO option on the website, which enabled users to provide direct feedback.
[24] MouthShut.com argued that as a consequence of this law would be the delegation of essential executive function to private parties like MouthShut.com to censor and restrict free speech of citizens or else face legal challenge for user's content.
[25][26][27] In February 2014, MouthShut was blocked by Bangalore-based ISP ACT Internet company and its Hyderabad-based subsidiary Beam Fiber, without furnishing the reason.
[28] The company then escalated the issue with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and the Department of Telecommunications (DoT).