The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is considering dropping a contentious clause from the draft intermediary guidelines that required companies to develop automated tools to ‘actively’ monitor content on Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook and other platforms.
“Instead, the final rules could ask the social media platforms to develop mechanisms using AI (artificial intelligence) to find out accounts transmitting illegal, inflammatory or any content which could disturb law and order or threat to national security, and then take them down,” a senior government official told ET.
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MeitY however has pushed back against the home ministry’s demand as it believes that the social media companies rightly claim that they are “platforms” and not publishers or broadcasters of content, thus their accountability for content on their platforms needs to be fixed accordingly.
Source: Economic Times
