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Sanjay Kanojia/AFP The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (the “Intermediary Rules”) fundamentally change the way the internet will be experienced in India. We provide you with an overview of its contents, the “safeguards” it seeks to establish, how they affect your internet usage experience, and your fundamental rights. Most notably, the Rules now will bring government control rather than regulation over digital news platforms and OTT video content providers. Several requirements under them suffer from unconstitutionality an...

OTT streaming services now have an almost identical legal framework as cable TV in India. Will censorship follow?

Made-in-India microblogging platform Koo said the new guidelines will help clarify the responsibilities of intermediaries.The government has tightened rules governing social media and streaming companies

Update (February 26): This summary has been updated to represent the final Rules that were notified on Thursday evening.  All OTT streaming services will now be required by law to accept complaints from viewers, and on top of the self-regulation system they created to avoid government regulation, they will now be subject to two layers of oversight. The first layer (after individual streaming services’ own grievance officers) will be a self-regulatory organisation (likely the Internet and Mobile Association of India’s Digital Entertainment Committee, or the recently announced IAMAI Secre...

Updated Feb 05, 2021 | 08:54 IST Spiking participation on unregulated social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram has been particularly responsible for the rise in online harassment and cyber-bullying. Representational image.  |  Photo Credit: iStock Images Key Highlights By some estimates, India had over 400 million internet users by 2018 making it the 2nd largest internet population in the world after China In a landmark case in 2015, the Supreme Court of India, in fact, struck down Section 66A of the IT Act, 2000 which inter alia criminali...