India plans to amend proposed rules for policing digital content so that the toughest measures apply only to big social media firms, two government sources told Reuters. More here: by AdityaKalra
) and WhatsApp, to deploy automated tools to check for unlawful content and to appoint an officer for “24x7” coordination with law enforcement.
But the draft proposals, called “intermediary guidelines” when they were released in December 2018, could have applied to a broad range of technology firms including e-commerce players, cloud storage providers and telecoms companies. “The problem is largely with large messaging platforms, ones that enable interaction. Some of the requirements for non-social media companies were unrealistic,” one of the officials said.The second government source said that having two separate layers of rules would mean that big social media companies such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Chinese video app TikTok would continue to face stricter regulation, but technology firms such as Amazon.com could breathe easier.
India’s IT ministry has previously said stricter regulations were necessary to safeguard users and the nation’s security as the Internet has emerged as a “potent tool to cause unimaginable disruption to the democratic polity”.
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