Last week, two local media outlets including the Economic Times reported that, despite strong pushback from large tech platforms including Facebook parent Meta Platforms, Google andThe members of the panel would be appointed by the government. And therein lies the first of the concept’s many problems.
It is also debatable whether such a government-backed panel would stand the test of law. Some previous amendments to intermediary rules of the Information Technology Act have been challenged in Indian courts. According to Namrata Maheshwari, Asia Pacific policy counsel at Access Now, the government’s proposed mechanism isn’t the answer to the problem of lack of transparency by social-media companies to resolving user complaints, as it would be prone to misuse by the government.
India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology didn’t respond to a request seeking comment on GAC.and WhatsApp approached the Delhi High Court last year on intermediary rules that allowed for traceability of encrypted messages. However, for the most part, U.S. social-media companies have toed the government’s line.
This WSJ article fails to mention the problem of a governmental content moderation has already been exposed in the US.
O common, Meta community & products like WhatsApp instagram messenger are data leaking,trapping, negativity,full of spammers. The bad things is that MarkZuckerberg isn't on Twitter Nobody is responding from Meta community. Really 😂
They're just doing what Biden tried to do.............lol 'disinformation board' .........what a disaster.............