New Guidelines For Digital Media

On 25th February 2021, citing instructions from the Supreme Court and the concerns raised in the Parliament about social media abuse, the government has released guidelines that aim to regulate social media, digital news media, and over-the-top (OTT) content providers.

  • For social media platforms, the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 envisage a category of significant social media intermediaries, the threshold for which will be announced later.
  • In addition, the government said that it wanted to create a level playing field in terms of rules to be followed by online news and media platforms vis-à-vis traditional ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
To get access to detailed content
Buy April 2021 Issue

Already a Member? Login here

Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material before the last six months of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Be an Annual Subscriber

Related Content

Current Affairs In Focus