New Social Media Rules – Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Ban?




Since yesterday there is speculation that Facebook<&sol;a>&comma; Twitter<&sol;a>&comma; and Instagram<&sol;a> might get Banned in India<&sol;strong> from May 26<&sol;strong> due to new Social Media Rules<&sol;strong>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;

Social Media<&sol;strong> Users were worried about this issue since yesterday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;

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According to the New<&sol;strong> Social Media Rules<&sol;strong>&comma; <&sol;em>Social Media companies such as Twitter<&sol;strong>&comma; Facebook<&sol;strong>&comma; <&sol;strong>and Instagram<&sol;strong> will lose their status and protection as Intermediaries under the Indian Information Technology Act&comma; 2008 amended Section 79<&sol;strong>&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;

On February 25<&sol;strong>&comma; The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology<&sol;strong> made new Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media<&sol;strong> ethics code rules for which they gave 3 Months<&sol;strong> deadline to the organizations till May 25<&sol;strong>&period; The requirement was to appoint a resident grievance officer as part of a larger grievance redressal mechanism&comma; monthly compliance report of Indian users&comma; active monitoring of the content of Social Media<&sol;strong> platforms&period; The Government of India wants to protect the rights of Indian citizens and actively monitor the platform to remove hate-mongering content and take down contain including revenge porn&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;

According to the new IT Rules&comma; 2021<&sol;strong>&comma; now Digital Media<&sol;strong> platforms require a larger grievance redressal mechanism including a Chief compliance officer&comma; a Nodal Contact Person&comma; and a Resident Grievance Officer&period; The Social Media <&sol;strong>platforms will need to publish these details on their website and mobile applications&period; By this New Social Media Rule<&sol;strong>&comma; Digital Media platforms need to acknowledge the complaint by the users within 24 hours and platforms will need to take any action within 15 days from the date of receipt&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;

Though this will not change the way we usually interact with any Social Media<&sol;strong> platform&period; Unless you are not breaking the rules with posts that are offensive or dangerous&period; The only difference you will see now is quick action on the grievances received by Indian users&comma; the Social Media<&sol;strong> platforms will need to be responsive&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;

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