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Telecom and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has said that social media platforms should be responsible for what they publish on the platform as the idea of having no responsibility for the content can't be unfettered or unlimited...
Platforms will have to be responsible for what they publish," Vaishnaw said Friday, on the sidelines of the ongoing India Mobile Congress...
The entire world's opinion is in that direction that there should be a method by which people, who are using social media platforms, are able to navigate the internet safely," Vaishnaw said...
The Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity) is working on new rules that will make the social media firms more accountable for the data that is published on the platforms..
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