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May 28, 2021 01:08 IST
By and large, the Information Technology Rules, 2021 go against landmark judicial precedents upholding key rights
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By and large, the Information Technology Rules, 2021 go against landmark judicial precedents upholding key rights
The life of Indian Law rather than being shaped along mathematical exactitudes finds itself at the receiving end of an experiential tussle. This tussle has aimed at every stage to bargain for a Fundamental Right in return for some negotiation, sometimes with the desire of the coloniser and at others with the dominant ideology at the Centre.
There are ambiguities
The subject of concern now is the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, which threaten to deprive social media platforms of their safe harbour immunity in the event of non-compliance with the said rules. While there are positive aspects about the said guidelines, there are, equally, glaring
Freedom of speech in India is slipping down a slippery slope
Journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta faces arrest for an article on the Adani Group, comedian Munawar Faruqui languishes in jail.
Shambhavi Thakur
The good news we were all waiting for in these bleak times came with Indiaâs sensational win in the cricket test series against Australia in Brisbane on January 19. But even as we celebrated good times for Indian cricket, the bad times for Indian journalism and freedom of speech and expression continued.
On the very day we celebrated Indiaâs cricket victory, a court in Kutch, Gujarat issued a non-bailable warrant against senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. He was reportedly charged under Section 500 of the Indian Penal Code relating to defamation.