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- Internet social-media platforms are granted broad “safe harbor” protections against legal liability for any content users post on their platforms.
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Sep 3, 2024 · Safe Harbour Rules: Social media platforms are not held legally liable for user-generated content, as long as they act to remove or address flagged objectionable content, thus supporting free speech and ensuring platforms are not responsible for preemptive content control.
Mar 10, 2023 · The 'safe harbour' concept affects social media, e-commerce and AI-based platforms. *According to the safe harbour principle, an online platform such as Facebook or Twitter cannot be...
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- Scope
- Safe Harbour Principle
- Intermediaries and Liability
- Legal Challenges to It Rules 2021
- Conclusion
While the IT Rules 2011 regulated all "intermediaries"without any distinction in terms of their user base or the contenthosted on their platform, the IT Rules 2021 are divided into twoparts based on their applicability. Part II regulatesintermediaries and Part III is applicable to digital mediaincluding publishers of news and current affairs or pub...
Section 79 of the Information Technology Act 2000 introduced thesafe harbour immunity clause that protected an intermediary frombeing held liable for third-party content on its platform -provided that the intermediary observed 'due diligence' asprescribed by the Central Government. In cases where the 'duediligence' was not followed by the intermedi...
The main function of an intermediary is to receive, store andtransmit the information which it has received. An intermediaryplays no role whatsoever in creating such information. The users(i.e., third-parties) are the ones who create the content orinformation that is received by the intermediary and transmitted toother users. The intermediary merel...
Delhi High Court issued a notice on a petition filed by QuintDigital Media Ltd, which owns the online newsportal 'The Quint', challenging the constitutional validityof the IT Rules 2021, to the ext...The Kerala High Court issued a notice to the Centre on apetition filed by Live Law in this regard. The High Court alsopassed an interim order restraining coercive action under Part 3 ofthe Rules ag...WhatsApp has also filed a Writ Petition challenging therequirement in the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelinesand Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 that private messagingintermediari...In recent times, we are already witnessing the battle betweenthe Indian Central Government and Twitter - India regarding'compliance' as mentioned in the IT Rules 2021, but sincethe IT Rules 2021 are self-explanatory, non-compliance wouldautomatically mean that the intermediaries would not be able toclaim the safe harbour principle and thereforewoul...
May 26, 2021 · As most of the bigger social media intermediaries have their headquarters in the US, the most keenly watched is Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which provides Internet companies a safe harbour from any content users post of these platforms.
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May 27, 2021 · Global norms on safe harbour protection. As most of the bigger social media intermediaries have their headquarters in the US, the most keenly watched is Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. This provides Internet companies a safe harbour from any content users post of these platforms.
Loss of safe harbour means that a platform can be held liable for content that users post on its platform. Functionally, it means that the intermediary cannot use safe harbour as a...
Aug 12, 2021 · Internet social-media platforms are granted broad “safe harbor” protections against legal liability for any content users post on their platforms.
