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Backstory: The IT Rules Put ‘Democratic’ India in the League of Dictatorial Regimes A fortnightly column from The Wires ombudsperson. Illustration: The Wire Media03/Jul/2021 As journalists appeared before the Loni Border Police Station (Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad district) to make statements over whether or not they were guilty of a communally motivated crime by reporting/tweeting on that ugly assault on a 72-year-old Muslim, two aspects jumped out of the page for me. First, the G...

Supreme Court should not allow outrage industry to shape moves to tighten OTT content regulation