The government said this provision is exactly the same as being exercised by the Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeITY) for the past 11 years under the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking for Access of Information by Public) Rules, 2009.
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The government on Thursday said that social media is welcome to do business in India but there should be no double standards and that it will have to comply with the rules and regulations issued from time to time so that its misuse can be prevented. The government also announced new guidelines to curb the misuse of social media platforms.
With oversight mechanism, Govt tightens grip on OTT content
February 26, 2021
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OTT players will now be subjected to a three-tier grievance redressal process, which includes a government oversight mechanism, and will have to classify their content on five age-based categories. Stating that there was a need for an “institutional mechanism” to govern OTT platforms, the government said it has come out with the rules that give a “soft-touch self regulatory architecture”.
This comes at a time when the OTT industry had been trying to avert a government oversight mechanism. Earlier this month, 17 OTT players said they are adopting universal self-regulation code toolkit under the aegis of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). They said this was done after addressing concerns raised by the I&B Ministry on the universal self re
Update (February 26):
This summary has been updated to represent the final Rules that were notified on Thursday evening.
All OTT streaming services will now be required by law to accept complaints from viewers, and on top of the self-regulation system they created to avoid government regulation, they will now be subject to two layers of oversight. The first layer (after individual streaming services’ own grievance officers) will be a self-regulatory organisation (likely the Internet and Mobile Association of India’s Digital Entertainment Committee, or the recently announced IAMAI Secretariat). This layer is required to be headed by a retired high court or Supreme Court justice.