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Centre’s New Guidelines on Social Media Regulation
The Central government has notified the new guidelines on social media regulations on February 25, 2021. It is being called as “Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021”. Highlights The new guidelines have been notified with the aim of regulating social media and OTT platforms. These rules were put into public by ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2021
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs • Legal & Constitution Current Affairs
Topics: Digital media • Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code • IT Act 2000 • Ministry of Information and Broadcasting • OTT Platforms • Social Media Regulation
Access to Internet is a Fundamental Right: Kerala High Court
A single bench of the Kerala high court headed by Justice PV Asha has ruled that access to the Internet is a fundamental right which cannot be taken away arbitrarily. Case before Kerala High Court The court was hearing a petition filed by Faheema Shirin, an 18-year-old BA student which questioned the hostel rules which ..
Topics: Digital media • Digital rights • Human rights • Internet privacy • Privacy • Right to Internet access • Right to privacy • Social issues
Southern Railways
The Southern Railway zone is one of the 18 railway zones in India. It is headquartered at Chennai and was one of the earliest among the 18 zones of the Indian Railways which were created in independent India. The Southern Railway has its major territory (74.5%) in Tamil Nadu and the remaining in parts of ..
Topics: Chennai • Digital media • grievance redressal process • Indian Railways • Social media • Swachh Bharat Mission
ICRIER to develop Broadband Readiness Index (BRI) for Indian States and Union Territories
The Department of Telecom (DoT) and the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) signed a MoU to develop a Broadband Readiness Index (BRI) for Indian States and Union Territories (UT). The first estimate will be made in 2019 and subsequently every year until 2022. This index will appraise the condition of the ..
Topics: Digital divide • Digital media • Economic geography • Humans • Social inequality • Technology development
China blocks all language editions of Wikipedia
China has expanded its ban on Wikipedia to block the community-edited online encyclopedia in all available languages. Hence, Wikipedia had joined thousands of other websites which cannot be accessed in China. According to a report by the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), China started blocking all language editions of Wikipedia from April 2019. China’s ..
Topics: Block • Censorship • Censorship of Wikipedia • Digital media • Firewall software • Great Firewall • Internet censorship • LinkedIn • Open Observatory of Network Interference • Websites • World Wide Web