Backstory: The IT Rules Put âDemocraticâ India in the League of Dictatorial Regimes
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As journalists appeared before the Loni Border Police Station (Uttar Pradeshâs Ghaziabad district) to make statements over whether or not they were guilty of a communally motivated crime by reporting/tweeting on that ugly assault on a 72-year-old Muslim, two aspects jumped out of the page for me.
First, the Ghaziabad Police themselves do not seem to have made any credible effort to establish whether this was a hate crime or not. As far as I know, we only have the statements of the miscreants that deny the charge. Two, and more important, the promises Union ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad and Prakash Javadekar made while introducing the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, in February this year â that the government welcomes criticism a
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Plea filed in Bombay High Court against new IT Rules
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Rules seek to impose unreasonable burden on digital news publishers, says petition
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Rules seek to impose unreasonable burden on digital news publishers, says petition
A petition has been filed before the Bombay High Court challenging the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules for violating the fundamental rights under the Indian Constitution.
A petition was filed by legal news website
The Leaflet and former journalist c, contending that the new IT Rules are contrary to the provisions of law including Article 14 (equality before the law), Articles 19 (1) (a) (to freedom of speech and expression), 19 (1) (g) (to practise any profession, or to carry on any occupation, trade or business).
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In its compliance report, Facebook said it took action on over 30 million content pieces across 10 violation categories from May 15 to June 15 in India. (Representational image)
As directed by the new IT Law, social media giant Facebook submitted its first compliance report on Friday. Earlier, Google and Koo had also submitted their reports.
Under the new law, which came into effect on May 26, large social media (with over 5 million users) companies need to publish periodic compliance reports every month, mentioning the details of complaints received and action taken.
Social media companies have to submit compliance reports in accordance with Rule 4(d) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 of the Government of India.