The lawsuit escalates a growing struggle between Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government and tech giants including Facebook, Google parent Alphabet and Twitter in one of their key global growth markets.
The newly notified IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, which are applicable for digital news, social media, and OTT platforms, came into effect on Tuesday. The rules mandate the establishment of a three-tier grievance redressal mechanism among other directives
The IT Ministry termed WhatsApp's last moment challenge to the intermediary guidelines as an unfortunate attempt to prevent norms from coming into effect
New IT Rules Fail On International Standards
If enforced and maintained in their current form, these rules will govern the big tech companies at the expense of the freedom of expression in the world s largest democracy.
Kumar Kartikeya 26 May 2021, Last Updated at 4:00 pm Kumar Kartikeya 2021-05-26T15:49:34+05:30 New IT Rules Fail On International Standards outlookindia.com 2021-05-26T16:00:16+05:30
According to the newly published study by Freedom House, a non-profit organisation that measures the Freedom index of various countries, India has downgraded to a ‘partly free’ nation from a ‘free’ nation. Over the last few years, India has seen a gradual but steady erosion of civil rights and freedom of speech. The silencing of voices by detaining or arresting dissenters, teachers, scholars, protesters, and journalists is an extremely worrying tactic practiced by the current government. The controversial imprisonment of a 22-