The rules have attracted criticism from a range of stakeholders the Congress and several other Opposition parties, including the TMC, RJD and CPI(M), have come down heavily on the government over its decision.
India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has introduced regulations primarily for online real money games, effective April 6, 2023. The Amendments propose a light touch, co regulatory framework between MeitY and registered self regulatory bodies.
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The direction India is taking to exert control over Internet services is fraught with worrying implications for data protection and cybersecurity. A set of new regulations drastically increases the mandates on Internet intermediaries in general, creates a class-based regulatory system for them, requires retention of user data, impacts encryption, and imposes unprecedented rules on news sites and curated video-streaming sites.
The new subordinate rules issued by the Government of India last week under the Information Technology Act are a complicated package to unravel. Their original purpose was to fill in a specific area which the Indian parliament had delegated to the government when it amended the Information Technology Act in 2008. The area is the due diligence that Internet intermediaries have to satisfy to use the safe-harbour provision it provides qualified
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The government s standoff with social media platforms such as Twitter had intensified following the Republic Day violence linked to farmer protests in Delhi and Twitter s refusal to comply with government orders to remove allegedly provocative content and posts linked to farmer genocide. Koo will respect the laws of the land. We understand the importance of freedom of speech and at the same time we also understand the need to operate within the legal boundaries of our country of operation, Mayank Bidawatka, co founder of Koo, said.
Indian social media platforms such as Koo and Mitron said they welcome any measures to monitor and control fake information that spreads through social media platforms. Mitron said it has given recommendations to the government in the past and will keep doing so in future as well.