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Instead of soft-touch monitoring, the government has opted for predatory new rules The new rules introduced by the Centre last week to regulate all types of digital platforms, with the idea of redressing user grievances and ensuring compliance with the law, are deeply unsettling as they will end up giving the government a good deal of leverage over online news publishers and intermediaries. This holds troubling implications for freedom of expression and right to information. Electronics and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, while launching The Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermedia...

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...

Updated: What are the dos and don’ts for social media and OTT platforms? Share Article AAA Representative Image: For digital publishers of news and current affairs as well as video streaming services, an identical three-tier structure for grievance redressal has been mandated. File Photo.   What are the dos and don’ts for social media and OTT platforms? The story so far: On Thursday, in a long-anticipated move, the government notified guidelines that seek to provide a grievance redressal mechanism for users of digital platforms of all kinds — social media sites, messaging apps, over...

Government's new guidelines for digital news will amount to killing freedom of press: Siddharth Varadarajan The guidelines mandate a three-tier grievance redressal mechanism to enforce the Code of Ethics that will include self-regulation, followed by self-regulation by independent bodies and lastly the government's oversight mechanism Siddharth Varadarajan Criticising the new guidelines issued by the government, mandating digital news platforms in India to be governed by a Code of Ethics and a three-level grievance redress mechanism, Siddharth Varadarajan, Founding Editor of The Wire, said th...

OTT platforms would be required to implement parental locks and reliable age verification mechanisms