News Will Develop Rules to Regulate Vulgar Language, Profanity, “Bad Words” On Platforms: IT Min Assures Delhi HC A few weeks ago, streaming platform ULLU found itself at the receiving end of a DPCGC order directing it to take down or edit "obscene" and... Aarathi GanesanAugust 24, 2023
News IT Rules, 2021: Delhi HC Asks IT Min to Clarify the “Reasonable Efforts” Platforms Can Take to Moderate User Content Although the IT Rules, 2021, lists all sorts of content platforms have to take "reasonable efforts" to cause their users not to upload, it... Aarathi GanesanAugust 24, 2023
News Meta’s Oversight Board points out the gaps in its content moderation policies Meta's policies allows content that "normalizes gender-based violence" to exist on the platform, the Board noted. Kamya PandeyAugust 3, 2023
News Review content before putting it online: Indian government’s advice to Disney, Netflix and other OTT platforms The proposal, it turns out, was made a day after DPCGC, a self-regulatory body, issued a content takedown order to the OTT platform ULLU... Vallari SanzgiriJuly 17, 2023
News Fact-Check Amendment Will “Impoverish” Political Discourse Online: Editors Guild of India Challenge at Bombay HC Kamra, the Editors Guild, and the Association of Indian Magazines have all challenged the rule at the Bombay HC on similar grounds of shrinking... Aarathi GanesanJune 8, 2023
News Association of Indian Magazines Next to Challenge Fact-Check Amendment At Bombay HC Citizens will lack clarity about whether their speech will be prohibited and may engage in self-censorship in order to avoid violating the law. Aarathi GanesanJune 7, 2023
News Meta’s shareholders reject proposal seeking to address hate speech in India Proposal 7 was the only one of the 13 proposals being put to vote that looked at India, according to the Internet Freedom Foundation. Vallari SanzgiriJune 1, 2023
News Reducing the “Muck” That Makes Social Media “Horrible”: How is Mozilla.social Exploring Content Moderation? Content moderation will follow the "Mozilla Manifesto", which outlines principles like human dignity, inclusion, security, individual expression and collaboration Aarathi GanesanMay 5, 2023
News Off again, on again: Twitter locks out NDTV and ANI from their accounts The accounts were locked by Twitter's automated system for content moderation Kamya PandeyMay 2, 2023
News India among top five countries calling for removal of content and seeking user information, says Twitter Twitter received approximately 53,000 legal requests from governments across the world to remove content between Jan-June 2022 Vallari SanzgiriApril 27, 2023