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Online platforms to remove content flagged by govt's fact-checking mechanisms: new IT draft rules

Online platforms to remove content flagged by govt's fact-checking mechanisms: new IT draft rules

New Delhi: Online platforms in India have to pull down content if flagged as fake or false by the Centre’s fact-checking mechanisms, as per the revised draft amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.

For offensive content, no punishment under scrapped Sec 66A of IT Act, says SC: Report

For offensive content, no punishment under scrapped Sec 66A of IT Act, says SC: Report

The Supreme Court today ruled that no citizen can be prosecuted under section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, which it had abolished in 2015.