An IT law is born in India that forces social media and online games not to host ``false and misleading information''
On Thursday, April 6, 2023, the Ministry of Electronics and Telecommunications Technology (MeitY) of India announced partial amendments to the IT Act enacted in 2021, and several Self-Regulatory Organizations (SROs) in India. to decide whether or not to allow the operation of real money games. The Ministry of IT explained that the revision of the IT law this time is to force
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Rajeev Chandrasekhar , India's Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, who helped to amend the IT law, said, 'Online gaming is certainly a big opportunity for young people in India.' Also, for the Indian economy, ``India's online game ecosystem is expanding and is growing into a multi-billion dollar (hundreds of billions of yen) industry. I expect it to be an important factor in India's goal of a '1 trillion dollar (approximately 130 trillion yen) digital economy',' he said, saying that online games will play an important role in India's economic development.
New India is committed to an Open, Safe & Trusted and Accountable Internet! #Misinformation is a major threat to the principles of #OSTA
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➡️ Building on the October 2022 notification of the #ITRules , @narendramodi Ji's government is focused on checking and preventing the spread… pic.twitter.com/6cmewnd0hv
This revision of the law requires companies to host 'online games that may harm users' and 'games that have not been verified as 'approved online games' by an online game SRO designated by the government.'・You are obligated to make reasonable efforts not to publish or share it. Gambling online games and website advertising are also completely banned.
MeitY mentions that this revision of the IT law will be the core of the framework for verifying online games that should be authorized by SROs in which the industry participates, and also ordered the establishment of SROs in the game industry. I'm here.
In addition, MeitY may also use reasonable efforts to stop hosting, publishing or sharing content from institutions that report false or misleading information about government affairs.
MeitY mentions that the revision of the IT law was drafted after extensive discussions with multiple stakeholders, including parents, teachers, academics, students, gamers, industry groups, and children's rights groups.
Sai Srinivas, co-founder and CEO of India's mobile gaming platform Mobile Premier League, said, 'The changes to the IT law will go a long way in realizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of making India a global leader in the gaming industry. It will contribute to the continued success of Indian and Made in India brands.'
Roland Landers, CEO of the non-profit
In addition, overseas media TechCrunch reports that Internet service providers that do not comply with the IT law may lose protection under the Safe Harbor Rule .
The Internet Freedom Foundation , an India-based digital rights organization, said: ``The amended IT law will have a more chilling effect on basic rights to speech and expression, especially for news media, journalists and activists. It is also possible that the government will issue effective deletion orders to social media platforms and other intermediaries,” he said, criticizing the revision of the law.
TechCrunch said, ``India is an important overseas market for Facebook, Twitter, and Google. We are fighting to win.These services are now used by more than 500 million people in India and both companies have opposed changes in the IT law in India.'
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