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Why The Wire Wants the New IT Rules Struck Down
Synopsis of the petition moved in the Delhi high court by the Foundation for Independent Journalism, publisher of The Wire.
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On Tuesday, the Delhi high court issued notice to the Centre on a petition filed by the Foundation for Independent Journalism, publisher of
The Wire, which pleads that the governmentâs new Information Technology (IT) Rules which seek to dictate content to digital news media platforms go beyond the scope of what is permissible under the IT Act and need to be struck down.
Why the New IT Rules Beg Urgent Judicial Review
The new intermediary rules have conferred unbridled powers to the executive, potentially in complete disregard to the constitutionally guaranteed rights of freedom of speech and expression.
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The Caravan, a leading investigative journalism magazine was withheld. News agency
ANI soon reported that around 250 accounts had been withheld by Twitter in India upon request from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act).
The accounts withheld by the social media platform included accounts of persons tweeting and retweeting in support of the ongoing farmersâ protest against the newly introduced farm laws by the central government. One such account was of the Kisan Ekta Morcha, an organisation at the forefront of these protests.