Government To Introduce Framework To Regulate Social Media Platforms

Center told the Delhi High Court!

On Wednesday, The Central Government apprised the Delhi High court that it will introduce some mechanism to regulate the social media platforms but it will not cover the existing cases including account suspension by the platforms.

The counsel for Central Government made this statement during a hearing on a batch of petitions against the suspension of social media accounts by social media platforms including Twitter before the bench of Justice Yashwant Varma.

According to the statement given by , Advocate Kirtiman Singh appearing on behalf of the Centre told the bench, "we have checked up on your lordship's last order. The amendment will take place at some point of time, we don't really know (when). It will be a prospective change and will not cover the existing cases, they will perhaps have to decide as per the existing scheme.

As per the information, The court said that before entering into judgement, we also want to understand if there is any regulatory mechanism that they are proposing to implement, and whether that would have any impact on this batch.

After granting time to the Centre the court listed the matters on December 19, 2022. The court observed, " If the scope of the regulatory power that you propose to invoke is known we will know the contours of our jurisdiction area."

The Centre has said the social media platforms should not take down themselves or be permanently suspended in all cases and complete de-platforming is against the spirit of Articles 14, 19 and 21 of the Constitution of India.