Madras High Court issues notice in petition challenging the Intermediary Rules 2021 by T. M. Krishna
Madras High issued notice on a writ petition by T.M. Krishna challenging the Intermediary Rules 2021.
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Sound the alarm! The clock strikes for social media tomorrow with the Intermediaries Rules coming into effect.
Under the Intermediaries Rules, significant social media intermediaries had a host of obligations to comply with by the deadline of 25th May, 2021. The compliances that significant social media intermediaries are onerous and may stifle innovation in the Indian digital space.
MEITY has no legal basis to ask social media platforms to remove content in middle of India's COVID crisis!
MEITY has written letters to social media platforms. These letters ask platforms to remove content. We write to MEITY asking them to withdraw these letters as they do not have a legal basis and they curb speech.
Tandav is a Case Study for OTT censorship under the IT Rules, 2021 #LetUsChill
Documents accessed through RTI paint a grim picture for creativity and diversity of content for online streaming platforms in India.
Dear MEITY, withdraw the new IT Rules!
We write to MEITY urging them to withdraw the Guidelines For Intermediaries And Digital Media Ethics Code Rules, 2021 while objectively noting the marginal positives within them are eclipsed by the larger illegalities that threaten digital rights.