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中国颁布阻断立法应对外国法律不当域外实施 As the first departmental legislation of the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) in 2021, Rules on Counteracting Unjustified Extraterritorial Application of Foreign Legislation and Other Measures (Blocking Rules) were published with immediate effect beginning Jan. 9, 2021. Given the trade, technology, and even diplomacy tensions between the United States and China, a series of legislations were promulgated starting in the second half of 2020. ...

IT Rules 2021: How online news and current affairs commentators will be impacted March 8, 2021 Social media companies and other online intermediaries are now responsible to monitor ‘news and current affairs’ content on their platforms published by individual journalists, freelancers, satirists or any other commentator. As a result online commentators like Faye D’Souza, Akash Banerjee (DeshBhakt), Dhruv Rathee, Amit Varma (SeenandtheUnseen) and even standup comedians could now fall under t...

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...

Interview | If You Want to Curb Fake News, Control BJPs 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 hasn’t 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 ...

Times Now, with headlines announcing that the new laws now had US backing. In fact, the US State Department statement, while cautiously welcoming “steps that would improve the efficiency of India’s markets”, called for dialogue with the farmers and underlined that peaceful protests and freedom of expression are the “hallmark” of a democracy. That it is the foreign media doing investigative journalism in and about India should raise some difficult questions, said Ayyub, the Washington...

Fuzzy law, unclear jurisprudence, trampled rights Updated: Updated: The legal regime that enables the government to block websites needs urgent reform Share Article The legal regime that enables the government to block websites needs urgent reform On February 1, 2021, in the wake of the intensification of the farmers’ protests and reports of violent incidents on January 26 – a number of Twitter accounts became inaccessible in India. These included (among many others) the accounts of The C...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On January 9, 2021, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) issued Rules on Counteracting Unjustified Extra-territorial Application of Foreign Legislation and Other Measures (Blocking Rules), effective immediately. The Blocking Rules (i) establish a means by which Chinese companies damaged by unilaterally imposed trade restrictions from the U.S. (or other countries) may seek redress, and (ii) give China the ability to unilaterally nul...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 10, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to amend the Standards for the Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, 45 C.F.R. Parts 160 and 164, Subpart E (the Privacy Rule). In response to its December 2018 Request for Information (RFI) for public input on areas of potential modification to the HIPAA Rules, OCR ...