The Minister of State for Information Technology and Electronics has made it clear, the government is the only body with access to factual data to certify any online speech as fake or otherwise. https://thewire.in/tech/it-rules-single-source-of-truth-governance
This idea of certifying truth with the state becoming the only source of truth is dangerous for any free society. It is also unfortunate the state won’t tell us what these truths are and will only censor our speech instead of educating us with facts.
Single source of truth is an informational model which ensures data from multiple databases/departments is inter-linked to create a reference database – ‘a master database’ – which is the only accepted true data in the entire organisation. To illustrate – if your land passbook says you have 10 acres of land, but the revenue database says you only have eight acres of land, another government database for welfare says you have 12 acres of land, then eight acres is considered truth no matter the actual on the ground land possession.
Here, the perceived truth by the government is not a fact measurable and quantifiable on the ground.
17/04/2023