Govt tightens scrutiny on social media sites
The government had asked OTT platforms to come up with a code of self-regulation multiple times but the last draft of the same had allowed for no third-party intervention
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The government on Thursday unveiled sweeping rules aimed at giving it greater control over large social media and messaging firms, such as Facebook and Twitter, digital news websites and video-streaming platforms.
The new rules are likely to have far-reaching implications for digital media and follow a clash with Twitter over the farmers’ protest.
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The court was hearing a plea about dangers posed by dangling wires on public streets.
25 Feb, 2021 - 08:26 AM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
NEW DELHI: The Karnataka high court has directed the state government authorities and Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to take action against private internet, television and cable operators responsible for dangling electric, telephone and TV cables in the state capital. Such pictures (of dangling wires) are common to all cities in India. How are you going to take action? remarked the two-judge bench, as reported by Bar and Bench.
The court was hearing a plea filed by advocate Amruthesh NP who sought directions to authorities to take action against illegal, dangling cable TV, internet, and electric wires in the state citing the danger posed by the same to the public at large.
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The intermediaries, including social media intermediaries, will have to establish a grievance redressal mechanism for resolving complaints received from users or victims.
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Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the government has received several complaints about rampant abuse of social media platforms.
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Updated: Feb 25, 2021, 05:27 PM IST
In an apparent effort to curb the misuse of digital platforms, including digital news, social media and over-the-top (OTT) streaming services, the Centre on Thursday announced new guidelines to aimed at regulting content on digital platforms.
Addressing a press conference, Union ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad and Prakash Javadekar said that the new rules have been announced by the Centre to “establish a soft touch progressive institutional mechanism with a level playing field featuring a Code of Ethics and a three-tier grievance redressal framework for news publishers and OTT platforms on the digital media.”