India is rolling new rules for social media platforms.
Social media giants have to start complying with rules set out by the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
According to India Today, the platforms will have to appoint compliance officers from India. That officer will look into complaints, monitor the content and remove it if they deem it objectionable.
The new rules also mention that the committee will have the sole power to take actions on complaints of the violation of codes.
The deadline is closing in for these companies to comply or be banned in India. This poses some interesting questions. Will every country demand this? Why not? If you are going to comply with India then say England, who has had it’s football players up in arms about platforms not doing enough to remove hateful messages might say, we want and English office that will oversee all content and remove what we deem hateful or inappropriate. I am just using England as an example but I would think most countries with a decent sized population could demand this.
Yet another reason to hedge and advance to .crypto on the blockchain
Cowboys or Indian’s can’t block that.
Florida passed a law yesterday against de-platforming for example. China doesn’t even allow these platforms, Russia has been warning Google against fake news too. Filter bubbles are real and the balkanisation of the web has been talked about since at least a decade if not more.
The Indian IT Act was passed in 2000, the IT Rules defining significant social media platforms were enacted over a year back. The platforms still haven’t complied, inspite of repeated reminders over the last three months.
All platforms with more than 5m users need to follow the rules, not just fb/twitter, don’t see why all the FUD is being spread about it, no one is getting banned. If you want to operate in a market you need to follow local laws.
And it’s not like the laws themselves are problematic, if you earn billions from the market, spending a few thousand to appoint a Grievance redressal cell isn’t too much to ask for, is it?
This is what the fuss is all about – “Significant social media intermediaries are called on to “endeavour to deploy technology-based measures,” including automated tools or other mechanisms, to proactively identify certain types of content. This includes information depicting rape or child sexual abuse and content that has previously been removed for violating rules. “
Raymond, this is a total side note, but you just have to see this:
“READER’S NOTE / WARNING:
Discovered a grossly misleading back-dated edit to Mr. Murphy’s comment here today:
http : // domainincite . com/26733-breaking-verisign-hopeful-after-decision-reached-in-web-gtld-case#comment-581679
See my reply today, at least for as long as he even allows it to appear, and in its true unedited form.”
Note: normally there would be a live link, but since those never appear without moderation here I’m just adding spaces to it there now.
My, my my…
While you’re at it, please let Mike Berkens know about this too.
Why you always link to your past comments? How much you get paid to write teh domain comments?
Some people think and act outside the box, and do things which have value for communities, causes and groups, and which are easily recognized as such, while other people abide in extreme narrow mindedness, personal waywardness, and engage in trolling online…
Hey dude, ironic thing is — you the troll. Maybe get a hobby besides posting so much drivel on these blogsites?
No, sadly you are confused about the meaning of the term “troll.” And don’t realize that you are one. “BootyJuice.” Never seen that name in the comments, what a surprise.
Well I must say, the troll heat in the comments sure heats up after you expose one of the “club” members for doing something diabolically evil and deceptive like that…what a surprise…
Carry on…