Read more about India and the world want social media firms to do more for safe harbour on Business Standard. As India tightens the noose of regulatory compliance around social media, there have been concerns about the dilution of the safe harbour provision in the country s Information Technology Rules.
The prescription of a content code for streaming sites and news portals is legally dubious. GoI has no authority granted to it by Parliament to enact such a code. The IT Act grants the authority only to make regulations with respect to intermediaries, which by definition host user content like Facebook or YouTube.
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Last Updated: May 26, 2021, 11:51 PM IST
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During the US presidential elections last year, Twitter had labelled many Donald Trump tweets ‘manipulated’, before taking down the former president’s account permanently. Such an action may have emboldened it to engage in such labelling in other geographies. There have been many occasions when platforms like Twitter have indeed crossed their role as an ‘intermediary’, to behave as an ‘editor’.
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Delhi Police landing up at Twitter’s Delhi and Gurgaon offices on Monday afternoon during a city-wide Covid lockdown when the social media company’s employees were working from home is, to put it mildly, strange. Whether it was to serve another notice Delhi Police has reportedly already served two notices and stated that this latest action was ‘routine procedure’ or
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