01 Mar More about Big Government than Big Tech )
Posted at 01 Mar 2021
in Current Affairs, GS Paper II, GS Paper III, Science and technology
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Context: Government issues new regulation under IT act.
About the regulation:
Issues in regulation:
- Government regulations are like law and they bypass the parliament.
- Final power with the executive remains a concern.
- Government can do a blanket ban according to its own understanding.
Why necessary
- Big tech companies are not listening to the government as is the case of twitter.
- Influence of Australia to maintain sovereignty.
- superseding rules are issued under Section 79 of IT act.
- Because of the origin of content on the OTT platform they were showing misdemeaning things to the public.
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