Breaking MIB forms committee to frame regulation for online content, websites

[Shantanu]

The ministry of information and broadcasting (MIB) has formed a 10-member committee to formulate regulations for online media/news portals and online content.

It will also have to recommend appropriate policy formulation for online media/news portals and online content platforms including digital broadcasting which encompasses entertainment/ infotainment & news/ media aggregators, keeping in mind the extant foreign direct investment (FDI) norms, programme & advertising Code for TV channels, norms circulated by PCI code of ethics framed by NBA and norms prescribed by IBF.

MIB forms committee to frame regulation for online content, websites

 

[zaxotes]

Censorship will now have its last laugh on digital content too.

 

[Sarkar]

Censorship will now have its last laugh on digital content too.

If digital content create huge impact which can trigger nuclear war threat then no wonder why Govt wants to control it

Reading Fake News, Pakistani Minister Directs Nuclear Threat at Israel

 

[Goalgappa]

@Sarkar very much so

 

[Shantanu]

According to media industry sources, Broadband India Forum (BIF), chambers of commerce FICCI and Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Internet and Mobile Association of India and Hong Kong-based Asian media advocacy group CASBAA are amongst some of the organisations that have sought representation on the government panel to add value to the policy-making process. The MIB secretary is the convener of the nine-member panel at present.

MIB moves to regulate online media: various organisations join issue

 

[Sarkar]

One of the largest media house is now the victim of fake news

Fake headline: TOI files police complaint - Times of India

https://twitter.com/x/status/989760587021271042

If media don't want govt regulations on fake news then why filling Police complaint now ?

 

[Shantanu]

The journalists organized themselves using social media, particularly WhatsApp, spontaneously after news broke that the government had set up a committee to come up with a regulatory structure for online media “on the lines applicable to print and electronic media”.

Over 100 journalists and professionals, including those from dozens of online organizations, signed the petition. A website, onlinefreedomfoundation.org, has also been set up to allow ordinary citizens to oppose the move to regulate online content.

Online media platforms unite against I&B min’s move to regulate digital content