BJP politician irked at Shiva GIF on Instagram, files complaint with Delhi Police
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A BJP politician from Delhi, Manish Singh, filed a complaint against Instagram with the Delhi Police for the alleged offensive portrayal of Hindu deity Shiva in one of its GIFs, according to a picture of the complaint he posted on Twitter.
In the tweet posted in Hindi, loosely translated in English, Singh said, “Look at Instagram’s audacity. They are showing Mahadev’s (Shiva) picture with a glass of alcohol in one hand, and a mobile on the other. Instagram will suffer consequences for this.” Singh in the tweet also said that he has complained in this regard to Delhi Police to file a case against Instagram CEO and other officials under Section 153A and 295A of the Indian Penal Code.
The murky space of ‘social audio’
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June 10, 2021 00:41 IST
While apps like Clubhouse give a push to innovation, privacy and data rights remain out of focus
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While apps like Clubhouse give a push to innovation, privacy and data rights remain out of focus
Clubhouse, a new social networking app based around audio rooms, surpassed 2 million Android downloads across the world last month. The key feature of the app is the unique medium audio through which its users interact. This distinguishes it from well-established social media and messaging platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, and YouTube, which employ text, images, video, or a combination of three. In Clubhouse, the concept of old-school text chat rooms is replaced with the immediacy of the human voice. The app neither has any separate texting features, nor the option to create elaborate online profiles, thus keeping the focus purely on audio-based interaction.
Four days after the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology gave Twitter one last notice to comply with the newly notified Information Technology Rules, 2021, Twitter said it was making every effort to comply with the new guidelines and will provide the details of its Chief Compliance Officer within a week. “We understand the importance of these regulations and have endeavored in good faith to comply with the Guidelines, including with respect to hiring personnel in India,” the US-headquartered firm has said in its reply. MeitY had said on May 28 that significant social media intermediaries, or those with over 50 lakh registered users, have shared the details as required under the new IT Rules, 2021, except Twitter, which is yet to send in details about its chief compliance officer.
BKU’s spokesperson Rakesh Bains claimed that around 3,500 vehicles were part of the convoy. He added that another convoy of farmers from Haryana’s Panipat would join the protest site on June 10.
The new rules for intermediaries such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Google, Twitter and Telegram, come into effect on May 26, and the Minister added that most platforms have submitted their compliance to ‘The IT (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021’.
The next phase of the NPR, expected to include contentious questions on date and place of birth of father and mother, last place of residence and mother tongue was to be simultaneously updated with the 2021 House Listing and Housing Census that has been indefinitely postponed.
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The Indian government on Saturday sent out a “last notice” to Twitter urging it to immediately comply with the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 and warned that failure to do so would lead the platform to lose exemption from liability under the IT Act.
A note was written in this regard by Rakesh Maheshwari, the Group Coordinator in the Cyber Law Division in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). MediaNama has verified the veracity of this letter from MEITY sources and an RTI has been filed to obtain a public copy.