India's government has proposed to make itself the arbiter of what is true and what is not on social media.to India's IT Rules, 2021 – a sweeping law that requires social media services to take down certain content, identify users, and appoint officers to handle citizen grievances.to the law that would require games developers to self-regulate so their wares don't cause financial harm to users.
The amendments published yesterday detail that regime. But they also include a change to content takedown rules for social media that would require them to remove content"identified as fake or false by the fact check unit at the Press Information Bureau of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting or other agency authorised by the Central Government for fact checking or, in respect of any business of the Central Government.
In other words, if the government doesn't like content, it could force social media operators to take it down. And if they don't, their Indian operations would be imperiled. Which is obviously problematic, because India's government can appoint officers to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
Can't edit for every government to do this all with completly different takes and standards so literally no one can communicate without having their account flagged by some random country. Ministry of Truth x200
Moving in authoritarian state. Post-Truth