New Delhi: Indian press confidence has challenged the constitutional validity of information technology (guidelines for intermediary and digital media ethics codes), 2021, on the grounds that the government has introduced “unclear conditions’, ‘courtesy’, and prohibits’ half truth ‘, which Not clearly defined in the framework of the IT Law, 2000.
Perception of non-compliance with their rules or non-implementation, PTI has added in His petition, will lead to “their Draconian consequences”, including blocking, modification and deletion of content, compulsory publication of apologies , which can be ordered and enforced by the executive (center).
“The rules that are stabbed take the era of supervision and fear, thus result in self-censure, which results in abridgmentation / violations of fundamental rights as immortalized under the part III of the Indian Constitution,” said the office petition Premier News.
Join a series of news organizations, including the P association Enerbit digital news (DNPA), in challenging digital media rules, PTI shows that IT ACT, 2000, in fact, in fact, includes physical newspapers in paper format and it’s a replica online edition right under the rules.
“However, all the editions and publications ‘news and current affairs’ in digital form (even if done by media groups that raise physical newspapers) will be borne by rules as ‘digital media’ and are treated as digital news portals.
Significantly, no There is this definition found in IT laws and all carried by IT rules, 2021 with the aim of revealing their content, “said PTI.
Wasim begged, partnering in Luthra’s Law Office and Luthra, told toi that while the challenges were transferred by DNPA and PTI had many problems, the request for news agencies was more specifically focused on Part II of the rules of digital media, which was said by the petition “contrary to rights Fundamental rights.
Arguing that part of this rule is a violation of freedom of speech, PTI’s petition said the rule gave a private intermediary with “excessive force in forming disclosure of free speeches in the country”.