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Iron fist in velvet gloves: Digital media code

The architects of New India have at their disposal formidable powers of transformation that would make Houdini nervous. Worryingly, the agenda behind these changes is often cleverly couched in benign or even affirmative rhetoric that can obfuscate the real intentions. Thus, attempts to instil transparency, ironically, have intensified concerns about opacity in the public domain. The softest of touch from this government, its critics allege, can end up delivering the hardest of blows. The jury is still out on whether the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre’s first attempt to regulate the vast and, allegedly, shadowy turf occupied by social and digital media players, big and small, and Over The Top platforms belongs to the featherweight or the heavyweight category. This is because the declared intent of the regime has been matched by equally convincing reservations regarding some of the

Govt notifies 5-mn-user threshold for significant social media intermediary

The government on Friday specified 5 million registered users in India as the threshold for a social media intermediary to be considered a significant social media intermediary as mentioned in the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021. The rules make a distinction between social media intermediaries and significant social media intermediaries, who have a large number of users. The government had said on Thursday, while notifying the Rules, that it will specify the threshold of the user base that will distinguish between the two. Large social media firms including Facebook and Twitter said they are studying the rules.

Digital media ethics rules go against fundamental principle of news , says DIGIPUB

‘Digital media ethics rules go against fundamental principle of news’, says DIGIPUB In a letter to I&B and IT ministers, the association of digital news organisations asked that the rules be repealed or at least put on hold until ‘meaningful consultations are undertaken’. 26 Feb, 2021 Taking exception to “some specifics” of the IT Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code Rules 2021, put out on February 25, DIGIPUB News India Foundation argued they “appear to go against the fundamental principle of news and its role in a democracy”. In a letter to Prakash Javadekar, minister for I&B, and Ravi Shankar Prasad, minister for electronics and IT, the association of digital news organisations on Friday said while self-regulation of all news media was “imperative and the need of the hour”, the rules gave the government vast powers that ran counter to the principle of freedom of expression enshrined in the Indian constitution.

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