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The Punjab & Haryana High Court has made it clear that the 2022 Amendment to the Consumer Protection Rules, which ameliorated the anomaly with respect to tenure of the Consumer Commissions' President...
Centre says FCU for online content won't be notified till judgment is passed.
There will also be a provision of internal redressal mechanism in place and the courts can step in if issues remain unresolved, the government said in its submission. It was also submitted that the new rules aim to combat false news on anonymous platforms without penalising humour or criticism of the government.
The Central Government in its submission to the Bombay High Court has clarified that the fact check unit proposed to be set up by the government will focus on patently false government-related content, and that its role is only to flag and present views on misinformation, leaving the final call to (take down content to) intermediaries.
An intermediary can either take down the fake or false part, or, depending upon the nature of the content, put a disclaimer on content that is flagged by FCUs, SG Mehta said.