The Union government on Monday issued a proposal to send takedown notices to independent news creators for their content on platforms such as YouTube, Instagram and X under a draft amendment to the 2021 Information Technology Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code Rules, The Indian Express reported.
The draft amendments permits the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to recommend issuing blocking orders and requiring creators to apologise or make changes to the content if they are found guilty of grievances received by an inter-departmental committee.
Additionally, the draft amendments note that any advisories to social media platforms by the ministry would, if not complied with, affect their safe harbour provision under Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, The Hindu reported.
Removing the status would mean that the platforms would be liable for the content in question.
The proposal seeks to mandate “compliance by intermediaries with the ministry-issued clarifications, advisories, directions, SOPs [standard operating procedures], codes of practice and guidelines, forming part of due diligence under Section 79”.
The fresh proposal came as part of a batch of changes to Part III of the Information Technology Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code Rules, which governed professional media organisations till now.
The draft amendments are open for public consultations till April 14.
The proposal seeks to empower the ministry to issue...
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