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Twitter s statement on complying with India s IT rules is an attempt to dictate its terms to the world’s largest democracy, government says
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FILE PHOTO: The Twitter logo is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., September 28, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
The government has accused Twitter of seeking to undermine India s legal system and refusing to comply with the intermediary guidelines that allow it to claim safe harbour protection from any criminal liability in India. Protecting free speech in India is not the prerogative of only a private, for-profit, foreign entity like Twitter, but it is the commitment of the world’s largest democracy and its robust institutions, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) said in a strong rebuttal to Twitter s accusation on Thursday.
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May 28, 2021 01:08 IST
By and large, the Information Technology Rules, 2021 go against landmark judicial precedents upholding key rights
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By and large, the Information Technology Rules, 2021 go against landmark judicial precedents upholding key rights
The life of Indian Law rather than being shaped along mathematical exactitudes finds itself at the receiving end of an experiential tussle. This tussle has aimed at every stage to bargain for a Fundamental Right in return for some negotiation, sometimes with the desire of the coloniser and at others with the dominant ideology at the Centre.
There are ambiguities
The subject of concern now is the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, which threaten to deprive social media platforms of their safe harbour immunity in the event of non-compliance with the said rules. While there are positive aspects about the said guidelines, there are, equally, glaring
It says its notice was empowered by a legal provision allowing information to be blocked if it harmed country’s sovereignty, defence, foreign affairs or public order
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NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court has restrained WhatsApp and Telegram from illegally circulating e-papers of The Times of India and sister publication Navbharat Times on their platform. It issued notice to the two apps along with certain individuals who are administrators of groups on their platforms while barring them from circulating e-papers for alleged copyright violations.
Justice Jayant Nath said “prima facie” the act of illegally circulating the e-papers of plaintiff on the defendants’ platforms is violative of its copyright and ad-interim injunction is granted in the favour of Bennett, Coleman and Company Ltd.
Circulation of e-paper violates copyright, HC told