The government has been increasingly issuing broad takedown orders for content online in the past few weeks.
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The Union government is planning to allow the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) to send takedown notices to individual users for their social media posts. Under the IT Rules, 2021, the Ministry could issue such notices only to online news platforms.
In addition, any advisories to social media platforms by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) would, if not complied with, affect the firms’ so-called…