Asian internet lobby to fight India's plans to police social media content
Asian internet lobby to fight India’s plans to police social media content The proposal drafted by India’s technology ministry in December would compel Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter to remove within 24 hours content deemed to be unlawful https://www.business-standard.com/article/reuters/tech-lobby-takes-india-to-task-over-plans-to-police-online-content-119013101609_1.html?utm_source=SEO&utm_medium=Y An Asian web campaign gathering, whose individuals incorporate Alphabet’s Google and Facebook, on Thursday censured Indian government’s arrangements to control online networking content. The proposition drafted by India’s innovation service in December would propel Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter to evacuate inside 24 hours substance considered to be unlawful, including anything influencing the “sway and honesty of India”. Tech mammoths are planning to battle the adjustments in the “mediator rules”, Reuters has detailed. “While Internet mediators completely bolster tend...