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The move is the government’s way of addressing the refusal by Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter to hand over data in connection with protests against new agriculture laws by the country’s farmers.
India threatens to put social media employees behind bars amid farmer protests Jami Ganz The Indian government has reportedly threatened to throw employees of social media giants behind bars in response to the companies’ refusal to share data linked to the country’s farmer protests. The move is the government’s way of addressing the refusal by Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter to hand over data in connection with protests against new agriculture laws by the country’s farmers, people with knowledge of the threats told The Wall Street Journal Friday. Specific employees base...
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The whirlwind of developments during 2021 on "net neutrality" rules that is probably inevitable given the change in administration gathered speed this week, when a federal district court in California denied an industry request to stay the effectiveness of California's net neutrality law, the California Internet Consumer Protection and Net Neutrality Act of 2018. The ruling in American Cable Association et al. v. Becerra, No 2:18-cv-02684 (E.D. Cal.) is not a final holding that the California statute is legal—instead, in an oral ...
February 26, 2021 On February 25, the government published its new rules under the Information Technology Act, 2009 bringing guidelines for internet intermediaries and digital media organisations. According to the government the basic essence of the Rules is to introduce a “soft touch oversight mechanism”, as it insists that platforms develop their own mechanisms to monitor and take down content, while building robust grievance redressal systems. The IT Rules, 2021 focus on, and impact, three separate sectors: All online Intermediaries and platforms, with a special emphasis on social medi...
The government on Friday specified 5 million registered users in India as the threshold for a social media intermediary to be considered a significant social media intermediary as mentioned in the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021. The rules make a distinction between social media intermediaries and significant social media intermediaries, who have a large number of users. The government had said on Thursday, while notifying the Rules, that it will specify the threshold of the user base that will distinguish between the two. Large soc...