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The regulatory mechanisms prescribed for digital news portals in the IT Intermediary Rules 2021, notified last month, are dealing with matters that are nowhere mentioned in the parent act — the Information Technology Act, 2000, said The Foundation for Independent Journalism and others in their petition challenging the new rules. Hence the Rules are ultra […]

Why The Wire Wants the New IT Rules Struck Down Synopsis of the petition moved in the Delhi high court by the Foundation for Independent Journalism, publisher of The Wire. File photo of information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar and law and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. Photo: PTI/File Media09/Mar/2021 On Tuesday, the Delhi high court issued notice to the Centre on a petition filed by the Foundation for Independent Journalism, publisher of The Wire, which pleads that the govern...

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...

OPINION: Regulating digital news is important but freedom of press is precious Representative imageUnsplash social media platforms, the government has also put out new rules for digital news companies. Digital news can be anything from press conferences to analysis pieces regardless of whether they’re socio-political, economic or cultural in nature. Digital news organisations are facing a 30-day deadline to register themselves with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB).The India...

Under the digital media rules, notified by the government last week, foreign news and content publishers will now be answerable to the I&B Ministry. Experts say that the new rules will increase the cost of operations for foreign digital media firms

Instead of soft-touch monitoring, the government has opted for predatory new rules The new rules introduced by the Centre last week to regulate all types of digital platforms, with the idea of redressing user grievances and ensuring compliance with the law, are deeply unsettling as they will end up giving the government a good deal of leverage over online news publishers and intermediaries. This holds troubling implications for freedom of expression and right to information. Electronics and IT...

Sanjay Kanojia/AFP The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (the “Intermediary Rules”) fundamentally change the way the internet will be experienced in India. We provide you with an overview of its contents, the “safeguards” it seeks to establish, how they affect your internet usage experience, and your fundamental rights. Most notably, the Rules now will bring government control rather than regulation over digital news platforms...

Updated: What are the dos and don’ts for social media and OTT platforms? Share Article AAA Representative Image: For digital publishers of news and current affairs as well as video streaming services, an identical three-tier structure for grievance redressal has been mandated. File Photo.   What are the dos and don’ts for social media and OTT platforms? The story so far: On Thursday, in a long-anticipated move, the government notified guidelines that seek to provide a grievance redressa...

Governments new guidelines for digital news will amount to killing freedom of press: Siddharth Varadarajan The guidelines mandate a three-tier grievance redressal mechanism to enforce the Code of Ethics that will include self-regulation, followed by self-regulation by independent bodies and lastly the governments oversight mechanism Siddharth Varadarajan Criticising the new guidelines issued by the government, mandating digital news platforms in India to be governed by a Code of Ethics and a th...

OTT platforms would be required to implement parental locks and reliable age verification mechanisms