Provide Details on Compliance with New Rules Within 15 Days: Centre to OTT, Social Media Publishers
The new guidelines state that content involving nudity and morphed pictures of women will have to be removed in 24 hours of a complaint being raised.
| 27 May 2021 10:27 AM GMT
NEW DELHI: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has asked the digital media publishers, including OTT and digital news platforms to furnish details on their compliance with the new guidelines on digital media ethics within 15 days.
Further, the new guidelines state that content involving nudity and morphed pictures of women will have to be removed within 24 hours of a complaint being raised.
Updated May 27, 2021 · 07:09 pm The logo of the social networking website Twitter, displayed on a smart-phone screen. | AFP
The Centre on Thursday said that social media platform Twitter needs to stop beating around the bush and comply with the laws of the land, reported ANI.
“Law making and policy formulations is sole prerogative of the sovereign and Twitter is just a social media platform and it has no locus in dictating what should India’s legal policy framework be,” the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said in a statement.
This came after Twitter on Thursday said it was concerned about the “potential threat” to freedom of expression as India’s new social media rules came into effect.
New Delhi [India], May 27 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing on a batch of petitions challenging the newly enforced Information Technology Rules, 2021.
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