PTI
Big Tech companies have been in conflict with governments across the world for quite some time now. In India, even as the Centre introduced new rules for social media and digital content, earlier this year on February 25, and gave a three-month deadline to all social media and OTT (Over The Top) platforms to comply with them, many are yet to do so.
What do the rules suggest?
According to the centre, the rules establish a soft-touch self-regulatory architecture and a Code of Ethics and a three-tier grievance redressal mechanism for news publishers and OTT platforms and digital media.
Publishers of news on digital media would be required to observe norms of journalistic conduct of the Press Council of India and the Programme Code under the Cable Television Networks Regulation Act thereby, providing a level playing field between the offline (print, TV) and digital media