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Backstory:  From ‘Partly Unfree’ to ‘Fully Unfree’? The New IT Rules Could Hasten the Slide
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Tech13/Mar/2021
The two Union ministers, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Prakash Javadekar, who had jointly unveiled the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, at a press conference on February 25, are today hard at work trying to defuse the blowback.
Barely had the import of their exertions sunk in within the country, when uncomfortable news flowed in from without. In early March, the US-based Freedom House report lowered India’s rank from a “free” to a “partly free” country followed by Sweden’s V-Dem Institute, that had once ranked India as the “world’s largest democracy”, now considering it an “electoral autocracy”. The decline in the standards of media freedom in Indi ....

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