New guidelines by the Government of India for the social media apps like Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Koo.

Guidelines for intermediaries and social media ethics code, 2022:





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New guidelines by the Government of India(February 2021, section 87, of IT Act) for the social media apps like Netflix, Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Koo have been served and most above the only app Koo has been furnished all and proved to pass out all the guidelines. The central government added the guidelines to uphold the victims (Origin of a particular post) who are playing with wrong information and misrepresentation and name and fame of a person, state, or nation. As before the application and implementation of the guidelines, all these platforms were offering end-to-end encryptions but it was not possible to find out the origin of a particular post. From now onwards all the OTT Platforms and Social Media platforms are bound to checkout, tress, and report if needed the origin or source of the post. So that the new laws will increase the responsibility and accountability level of the user and safeguard the personal, social and national interest. It's mandatory to appoint a complaint management system and they have to take prior action with a time abundance of 36 to hours to 15 days by deleting the post after a complaint.



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Guidelines:

  • All the platforms will appoint the chief compliance officer will basically ensure the new laws are followed by the social media platforms.
  • All the platforms will appoint Nodal contact persons will be 24 hours coordination with law enforcing agencies and identify the first originator. 
  • All the platforms will appoint the residence grievance officer who will be responsible for taking the user's complaint and implementing the rules and acknowledging the complaints and resolving by 15 days.
  • These grievance regulating bodies will help the social media users by protecting the dignity of a person, state, or nation from sexual content, child abuse, pornography, and all the matters against public order.
  • OTT platforms are bound to specify the category of the age group of viewers so that the contents are not going to hamper the dignity, integrity, or not breaching the code of ethics.


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Today we have approximately 50 crores of users of all these platforms so it's high time to maintain social integrity and dignity in the social platforms. So all the platforms should feel the importance of all these laws and the necessity of the nation and they should follow all the laws, rules, and regulations. All these platforms empowers the users to create, question, criticize and comment due to the vast digitalization and also increasing users day by day due to social transformation. The vision of all the guidelines is to safeguard the interests of all the users and to maintain social harmony and public order.


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