New Delhi: Supreme Court Judge Dy Chandrachud on Saturday said the court could play the role of “truth commission” during false falsification and false news circulation has improved manifolds with social media proliferation and when citizens cannot only depend on the government of truth even in democracy.
Speaking at the Justice MC Chandla Memorial Lecture, Judge Chandrachud said that the importance of truth in the nation’s development, many countries after the independence of the totalitarian regime chose to determine the “truth commission”, which “serves to document, recording the previous” truth “regime and violations for future generations , so it not only gives catharsis to the victims but also prevents the possibility of rejection in the future.
“In a different context, this role can also be played by the court who has the ability to document the information of all parties involved, after the process has been followed.
In Suo Motu’s awareness of the Covid-19 pandemic taken by our Supreme Court, we have acknowledged this role in the context of the pandemic, “he said.
Like the relationship of truth with democracy as a sword and shield, Judge SC said,” The scope for a broad deliberation Especially at the age of social media, explain a lot of ‘truth’ so that it looks like we live in ‘lies’, and it shook the foundation of a democracy, “he said.” Democracy requires the power of truth to survive.
But, ‘truth’ has the feel of depending on social values, “he said and gave an example of a community attitude and democracy against legalizing gay sex.” While India is currently turning to normalize same-sex relationships, more than ten countries around the world still prescribe a death penalty for homosexuality.
In considering another example, we can note that forty years after India legalized abortion in 1971, most Latin American countries have not legalized it.
Therefore, while for one part of the world, the “truth” is that the fetus is considered to have the right to life, but for the others, this will be a “wrong” statement, “said the Judge, who is part of the 5-judge’s bench relates relations Private consensual sexual among adults included in the LGBTQ community.
Justice Chandrachud said the country could not be a determinant of truth even in democracy.
He said it could not be said that “countries cannot enjoy with political reasons, even in democracy.
The role of the United States in the Vietnam War does not see during the day until the Pentagon paper is published.
In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, we see that there are increased trends from countries around the world who try to manipulate data at the level of Covid-19 infection and death.
Therefore, once cannot only rely on the state to determine the ‘truth’.
“He said the truth faced a difficult time with the proliferation of social media which made the circulation of fake news agreed.” It cannot be denied that the ‘fake news’ phenomenon is increasing.
The related example of this is that the recent covid-19 pandemic is also as ‘infodemic’, because it is overabunded the wrong information online.
However, scholars also noted that ‘fake news’ or false information is not a new phenomenon, after its existence during print media has existed.
But the rapid progress in technology and the deployment of internet access has worsened this problem.
“One solution is to strengthen our public institutions, he said, adding that as citizens,” we must try to ensure that we have the press that we have that press.
Free of influence of all types, politics or economics, which will provide information to us in a way that is impartial …
We also need to protect our election integrity, and see the selection not only as a task.
To do this, we need to ensure that all citizens are given basic education and truly understand their voice value.
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