Why the New IT Rules Beg Urgent Judicial Review
The new intermediary rules have conferred unbridled powers to the executive, potentially in complete disregard to the constitutionally guaranteed rights of freedom of speech and expression.
Facebook and Twitter app icons on a smartphone. Photo: Reuters
The Caravan, a leading investigative journalism magazine was withheld. News agency
ANI soon reported that around 250 accounts had been withheld by Twitter in India upon request from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act).
The accounts withheld by the social media platform included accounts of persons tweeting and retweeting in support of the ongoing farmersâ protest against the newly introduced farm laws by the central government. One such account was of the Kisan Ekta Morcha, an organisation at the forefront of these protests.
Interview | If You Want to Curb Fake News, Control BJP s IT Cell : Supriya Shrinate on IT Rules
The Congress spokesperson said the government should, instead of muzzling dissent with the new IT Rules, attempt to set its own house in order. What kind of fake news are you going to check when the government hasnât been able to put its own house in order? Representative image. Photo: Unsplash
Tech01/Mar/2021
New Delhi: The BJP-led Centre recently framed rules to regulate all types of digital platforms. The three-tier structure introduced in the Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 effectively gives the Union ministries of Electronics and Information Technology, and Information and Broadcasting an unprecedented leverage over online news platforms like