Updated Feb 16, 2021 | 21:07 IST
Right now the government is working on executive orders and taking action under the Information Technology Act, said former Supreme Court judge Justice Deepak Gupta.
Justice Deepak Gupta in conversation with Times Now's Harish Nair  
New Delhi: Amidst the raging Centre vs Twitter row over the latter’s refusal to block several “anti-India and pro-Khalistani accounts”, former Supreme Court judge Justice Deepak Gupta has said it was high time the Union government set up an independent statutory body to end the misuse of social media including Twitter and Facebook.
It was the Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Gupta who in September 2019 while expressing alarm overspread and transmission of pornography through social media platforms for the first time directed the Centre to bring in firm rules and guidelines to curb the misuse of social media and set up an independent statutory authority to oversee it.