The Centre has not conducted any study regarding the impact of its control over social media.
17 Mar, 2021 - 06:59 PM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
KOLKATA: Amid the babel over increased regulation of social media in the country, the government has revealed there is no proposal with the ministry of electronics and information technology (MEITY) to appoint a regulator for social media.
“In order to provide enhanced user safety as also accountability of social media platforms, government has released the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 under the Act (IT Act) that specifies the due diligence to be followed by all the intermediaries including the social media intermediaries. The social media platforms are enjoined to develop a robust grievance redressal system,” Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad informed the Parliament today.
No proposal to appoint regulator for social media, government informs Lok Sabha ANI | Updated: Mar 17, 2021 20:17 IST
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New Delhi [India], March 17 (ANI): The government told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday that there is no proposal to appoint a regulator for social media.
In a written reply, Union Minister of Communications, Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad said that social media should not be abused or misused to defame, promote terrorism, rampant violence and compromise the dignity of women.
He said social media platforms are enjoined to develop a robust grievance redress system. The social media platforms, for the user-generated content made available on their platforms, are intermediaries as defined in the Information Technology Act, 2000. Section 79 of the Act provides an exemption from liability to intermediaries, provided they follow certain due diligence and are required to disable/remove unlaw
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NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leader Sushil Modi on Wednesday appealed to the government to follow Australia s example and enact a law to make tech giants like Google, Facebook and YouTube pay print and electronic media for content used by them at a time when print and news channels are facing a serious financial crisis with earnings from advertisements going to these tech companies.
“The government must make Google, Facebook and YouTube pay print and news channels for the news content they are using freely,” the former deputy CM of Bihar said in a zero hour mention in Rajya Sabha. He pointed out that traditional media had to make considerable investments to generate the content being used by tech companies.
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Modi said the traditional print and news broadcast media are passing through their worst phase in recent history as advertisements have shifted to tech platforms.
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NEW DELHI: Taking a cue from Australia, India should enact a law to make tech giants such as Facebook and Google pay local publishers of news content, senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi demanded in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
Raising the issue through a Zero Hour mention, the former deputy chief minister of Bihar said, The government must make Google, Facebook and YouTube pay print and news channels for the news content they are using freely.