Open Source Programmer Moves Kerala High Court Against IT Intermediary Rules 2021 Share This - x On Friday, a free-and-open-source (FOSS) programmer moved the Kerala High Court challenging the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (the Rules). A Bench of Justice PV Asha took up the petition on Friday and asked the Office for the Assistant Solicitor General to take instructions from the Union government in respect of the case. The petition is the fifth in the country challenging the Rules, which were notified in Fenruary this year and the first filed by an open source developer. The other four by The Quint, The Wire and TheNews Minute, and Pratidhvani's and one by LiveLaw, challenge the rules in their application to digital news publications.