After a three-year review process, India has announced strict regulations for instant chat services, social network operators, and video-streaming companies.
Titled "Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021," the red-tape [PDF] creates four big obligations for antisocial media outfits.
One requires messaging services to “enable identification of the first originator of the information” to allow “prevention, detection, investigation, prosecution or punishment of an offence related to sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, or public order.” Meanwhile, those who send or share messages involving sexual violence or child sexual abuse can be identified for the authorities, too.
India’s Internet Freedom Foundation has slammed this tr ..
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