Notice Issued to Social Media Firms to Remove Child Sex Abuse Material: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

The authorities has issued discover to social media platforms together with Telegram, YouTube and X to take away all little one intercourse abuse materials and teams circulating such content material, Parliament was knowledgeable on Friday.

Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a written reply to Rajya Sabha stated that the social media platforms have been knowledgeable that present guidelines forged obligations on the intermediaries, together with social media companies, to observe due diligence and in the event that they fail to observe such due diligence, they shall now not be exempt from their legal responsibility below legislation for third-party data hosted by them.

”The Government has issued discover to varied social media intermediaries together with Telegram, YouTube and X, to take away or disable entry to all such CSAM and teams circulating such materials which is violative of rule 3(1)(d) and rule 4(4) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (IT Rules, 2021),” Chandrasekhar stated.

He stated social media platforms want to make affordable efforts to trigger the customers not to host, show, add, modify, publish, transmit, retailer, replace or share, data which is dangerous to youngsters, or obscene, or invasive of one other’s bodily privateness, or violates any legislation.

The minister stated that the central authorities has additionally established three Grievance Appellate Committees (GACs) to allow customers to enchantment towards the selections taken by grievance officers of intermediaries on consumer complaints.

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