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What are the dos and don’ts for social media and OTT platforms?
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Representative Image: For digital publishers of news and current affairs as well as video streaming services, an identical three-tier structure for grievance redressal has been mandated. File Photo.
What are the dos and don’ts for social media and OTT platforms?
The story so far: On Thursday, in a long-anticipated move, the government notified guidelines that seek to provide a grievance redressal mechanism for users of digital platforms of all kinds social media sites, messaging apps, over-the-top (OTT) streaming services, and digital news publishers. The Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 also mandate that social media and messaging platforms will have to adhere to new requirements in assisting investigative agencies of the government. Launching the guidelines, Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ravi
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Updated Feb 08, 2021 | 13:33 IST
Twitter has come under increasing criticism from several governments across the world over its judgement in allowing or blocking content on its platform. Representational image. | Photo Credit: PTI
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Section 69A of the IT Act enables the Centre to block public access to any information (via computer resource) “in the interest of sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of the State, friendly relations with foreign states or public order or for preventing incitement to the commission of any cognizable offence.”
A failure to comply with Section 69A of the IT Act could lead to an intermediary facing “imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years,” and potentially attracting financial penalties as well
The Narendra Modi government has threatened Twitter with penal action for unilaterally unblocking the accounts of those who had tweeted with the hashtag “ModiPlanningFarmersGenocide” within a few hours of
acting against them on Monday.
Electronics and IT ministry sources said the government had issued a notice to the micro-blogging site to comply with its January 31 order to block 257 URLs and one hashtag under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, and Rule 9(1) of the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking for Access of Information by Public) Rules, 2009.
In the notice, the ministry said that Section 69A(3) of the IT Act specified the punishment for those failing to comply with directions issued under Section 69A.