Social media companies across the board are likely to approach the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) once again to expedite the process of putting in place a standard operating procedure (SOP) for the Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code, sources in know of the development told The Indian Express.
The need for an SOP for the intermediary guidelines was felt once again, following the recent controversy over Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s post across social media platforms, wherein he had posted a photo of the parents of a nine-year-old Dalit girl who was allegedly raped. The photo stoked controversy and was subsequently taken down by Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Simultaneously, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) sent legal notices to the platforms as well as Gandhi.
Though all the three platforms removed Gandhi’s tweet and post, they claimed that it was done based on their internal guidelines on posting and not on the notices sent by the NCPCR.
“Right now, the NCPCR has no jurisdiction to send us a legal notice. They should have either approached us through the grievance officer or got a court order asking us to take down the post. We took down the posts as it violated our policies. There is, however, no SOP and we do not know which agency can send us a takedown notice and which cannot,” a senior executive at a social media firm said.
An executive at another social media firm said that as per the...
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