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The government on Thursday announced new information technology rules to curb the misuse of social media platforms. It mandated firms to appoint a grievance officer and disclose the first originator of the mischievous information and remove it within 36 hours. The rules said content depicting nudity or morphed pictures of women needed to be removed within 24 hours. The rules notified by the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, will affect players such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter, and will include OTT (over the top) platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney, and Hotstar. The rules make a distinction between social media intermediaries and significant social media intermediaries that have a large number of users. The government will notify the threshold of the user base that will distinguish between the two.
Intermediary rules get mixed reaction from Internet societies, experts
February 25, 2021
Some felt there was no proper consultation with civil society organisations, private sector and academia The government’s notification of Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 has received mixed reactions from the sector analysts and companies.
While some hold the view that traceability mechanism would help quicken the action, others felt there was no proper consultation with civil society organisations, private sector and academia on the new rules that were significantly different from the draft which was put out in December 2018.
Salient features of the new rules include due diligence that must be followed by intermediaries, including social media intermediaries, and in case due diligence is not followed, safe harbour provisions will not apply to them; it seeks to empower the users by mandating the intermediaries to establish a grievan
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