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Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | New online, digital code fails to empower users
Published Mar 2, 2021, 10:16 am IST
Updated Mar 2, 2021, 10:16 am IST
Fake news is a significant reason that media literacy has emerged strongly in the education curricula around the world
If the government’s intent is to provide more rights to its people, it must help soothe the nerves of people who are now confused about what to say on the social media. (Representational image)
The new Information and Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 under Section 79 of the IT Act has created a flutter. The news media has paid extraordinary attention, space and time to it as it unfolded, and with good reason. Few people dispute the need for some kind of regulation of the digital media. But the debate is over whether it does what is needed. How empowering a tool are the new rules for the public, who are the ultimate users?