Could India ban Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram? New rules explained? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3u3KqY604I
WhatsApp Takes On Government: Will New Social Media Rules End Privacy? | Left, Right & Centre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyH3p_5wNHs
Reaction: "Minister Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the whole debate on whether encryption will be maintained is wrong. Whether or not the right to privacy is ensured using encryption technology or any other technology is entirely the right of the social media intermediary. The Government of India is committed to ensuring the right to privacy to all its citizens, as well as the means and information necessary to ensure public order and maintain national security. It is WhatsApp’s responsibility to find technical solutions, whether through encryption or otherwise. " Translation: Mr prasad's view is "we are banning leg movements. Its whatsapps problem to figure out how to make walking possible"
JD Government wants tech companies to do survelillance for them..
Govt Vs Social Media: Cong leader Jairam Ramesh green flagged the 'Traceability' clause last year
Twitter Issues Statement On New IT Laws, Says 'Deeply Committed To People Of India'
"To keep our service available, we will strive to comply with applicable law in India. But, just as we do around the world, we will continue to be strictly guided by principles of transparency, a commitment to empowering every voice on the service, and protecting freedom of expression and privacy under the rule of law.
Right now, we are concerned by recent events regarding our employees in India and the potential threat to freedom of expression for the people we serve. We, alongside many in civil society in India and around the world, have concerns with regards to the use of intimidation tactics by the police in response to enforcement of our global Terms of Service, as well as with core elements of the new IT Rules. We plan to advocate for changes to elements of these regulations that inhibit free, open public conversation.
to advocate for changes to elements of these regulations that inhibit free, open public conversation. We will continue our constructive dialogue with the Indian Government and believe it is critical to adopt a collaborative approach. It is the collective responsibility of elected officials, industry, and civil society to safeguard the interests of the public."
Stop Beating Around The Bush, Comply With New IT Rules': Centre's Strong Response To Twitter https://news.abplive.com/news/india/social-media-ban-centre-responds-to-twitter-asks-to-comply-with-new-it-rules-ravi-shankar-prasad-1460489 The Centre on Thursday condemned the statement issued by Twitter as totally baseless, false and an attempt to defame India to hide their own follies and asked the micro-blogging platform to stop beating around the bush and comply with the laws of the land.
New IT Norms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBtTJsmkSxE Centre's new rules for social media intermediaries:
Intermediaries shall remove or disable access within 24 hours of receipt of complaints of contents that exposes the private areas of individuals, show such individuals in full or partial nudity or in a sexual act or is in the nature of impersonation including morphed images etc. Such a complaint can be filed either by the individual or by any other person on his/her behalf
Appoint a Chief Compliance Officer who shall be responsible for ensuring compliance with the Act and Rules. Such a person should be a resident in India
Appoint a Nodal Contact Person for 24x7 coordination with law enforcement agencies. Such a person shall be a resident in India
Appoint a Resident Grievance Officer who shall perform the functions mentioned under Grievance Redressal Mechanism. Such a person shall be a resident in India
Publish a monthly compliance report mentioning the details of complaints received and action taken on the complaints as well as details of contents removed proactively by the significant social media intermediary
A very simple solution to the new IT rules, is that the Platforms, facebook, whatsapp, twitter can be asked to have a pull down menu to indicate like in Youtube Private, Public and Unlisted.
Those post which are marked private can be forwarded and will be considered content as originated by the forwarder. Such message are to be considered private conversations inside that particular group.
Those marked public will be forwarded with the originating ID (handle, email or phone number) and date inside the forward. These will be considered on par with the printing of posters where the poster has to be stamped with printers name. Here date and time stamp is also important, so that further forwarders know who and what they are passing on.
Those that are marked 'unlisted' is mandated to be stored, albeit in enrypted form, ny the platform, which then can be accessed only on "legally validated" requests by the State, Private afffected party after due notice to the originator, before a duly constituted panel/tribunal.
The problem with our current Dabaang governance, is that they do not wish to abide by any due process and they pass laws and have a vested interest in delay of such case going before that judiciary.
Why this suggestion? Basically it prompt people to mark their forwards "private" thereby taking responsibility for forwarded content. Also the idea is to have an anonymous category, which can be a dump ground for chatter.. as well as for storms. Public will help those particularly organisatoins, who wish to be identifies with a campaign, and get response..
Sooner or later, when the matters go to the Supreme Court for consitutional review, we should be able to say that there is a system which an take care of both reasonable and justiciable needs of the State as well as those of the platform, as the issue of privacy and protection from needless targeting by State.