"The moment the government steps in and tries to regulate [online content] I just inherently expect it to be a lot more ham-fisted than what it is right now. So, I think it’s choosing the lesser evil (self regulation) I would rather go with what we have right now," said Gursimran Khamba, founder of Light@27 and co-founder of the AIB comedy group at MediaNama's discussion on regulation of online content, held in Delhi last week with support from Amazon, Netflix, Facebook and in partnership with the Centre for Communications Governance at the National Law University, Delhi. “Most content creators have resigned to the fact that it’s having to choose the lesser evil. I think of self regulation as a broad, vague, [and] open to interpretation code of conduct, as it sort of exists right now, is marginally better because I think it provides you slight flexibility in terms of how much you can push the platform, how much you can push the conversation, how much you can push content without obviously breaking the law of the land,” Khamba added. "Creators aren’t making content that they would otherwise have, because a lot of ideas get shelved at stage 1” - Gursimran Khamba [caption id="attachment_205893" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Ambika Khurana, director - public policy, Netflix[/caption] Content creators and platforms are becoming risk averse "How worried are you as an artistic guy in terms of how this entire environment of regulation will oppress or strangulate artistic freedom," Ambika Khurana, Director (Public Policy) for Netflix…
