New Delhi: Because fears increased in Facebook’s inability to contain hatred speeches and polarize content in India for weak supervision and despite repetitive warnings issued by internal staff, the government said it would take action against social media giants for irregularities, even now ACT – It comes into force in 2001 – can be immediately designed new to factors in social threats, technological progress and ensure user security and security.
“You cannot have Cyberspace as a Wild West where there are no rules and no applicable laws,” said Junior IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar while speaking now Summit 2021.
The minister said that accountability needs to be driven on the road social media platform like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter monitor content and hate, especially because most have the potential to create disputes in society.
“So, it is an evolution for this intermediary (social media platform) to switch from the belief that the cyberspace space does not have jurisdiction and there is no law for one where countries work together in creating a set of rules.” The minister’s view came when there was concern.
new on Facebook’s inability to monitor hatred content and count in India with a new report that shows that the company’s global senior officials do not read much with concerns raised by their own internal staff between 2018.
and 2020.
Concerns have come out through revelations made by Former Facebook Data Scientists and Frances Whistleblower Haugen in various submissions before the regulator in the US.
When contacted, Indian spokesman for Facebook meta facebook said that the team in the company has developed “industry -Reading processes and prioritizing” which countries have the highest risk of offline danger and violence every six months.
“We did this determination in line with The principles of UN guidance on business and human rights and participate in community losses, how much.
Facebook products affect these critical losses and events in the field, “said Meta spokesman said.
Compa NY claims that it has a speech that hates classifiers in Hindi and Bengali from 2018.
“Classification for violence and incitement in Hindi and Bengali first online at the beginning of 2021.” The Minister of Chandrasekhar previously said that effective examinations must be maintained to maintain the instance of racial crimes, false news, cyber intimidation, child pornography, and also violated legal content around children and women.
The updated IT regulations for social media companies, announced in February this year, are steps in this direction, he added.
He said that making rules for social media companies does not mean unfairly controlling their work.
“I have made it very clear that the government has no intention of doing anything to do with the internet and intermediary, work and creative innovation, and investment.
We do not have a role except to ensure that the internet is always open, safe and trusted by those who use it, And in the context of India.
I can assure you that this government is committed to keeping the internet open.
Only interested in ensuring the internet remains safe, trusted and responsible to its users.
“When they get new IT laws in place, he said that law Currently carried out in 2001, and then changed in 2008.
“Almost almost 21 years old, which means for centuries in the internet era …
it was really clear in my mind as a nation that was invested in technology , for whom the internet is a big part of our digital economy, we need to develop law We and we need to get more modern laws.
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