regulation on social media in india
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Social media includes popular
networking websites, like
Facebook and Twitter.
Social media involves blogging
forums and any aspect of an
interactive presence which allows
individuals ability to engage in
conversations with one another,
often as a discussion over a
particular blog post, news article,
or event.
SOCIAL NETWORKS
SOCIAL MESSAGING
BLOGGING
WORDPAD
MICROBLOGGING
MEDIA SHARING
WIKIS
WIKIPIDIA
VIDEO-SHARING
YOUTUBE
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► Express views, open discussion
platform
► World wide connectivity
► Jobs related information sharing
► Increase in news cycle speed
► Free advertisements and
business networking
► Knowledge sharing
► Women empowerment
► And much more….. Top social media platform used in INDIA
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On 5 December 2011, The New York
Times India Ink reported that the Indian
government had asked several social media
sites and internet companies, including Google ,
Facebook and Yahoo!, to "prescreen user
content from India and to remove disparaging,
inflammatory or defamatory content before it
goes online”.
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Having access to all the personal
information regulating and
removing contents which may be
considered offensive.
Banning users from posting the
contents like photos or text which
may be considered offensive.
► Freedom to express views will be in limits
or will be terminated
► No platform for open discussion
► Connectivity, active participation in political
views, business initiatives will be lost.
“What is the use of social networking if it comes with this limits.”
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Opinion of “GOOGLE” on
this policy…
“When content is legal and
does not violate our policies, we
will not remove it just because it is
controversial, as we believe that
people's differing views, so long
as they are legal, should be
respected and protected."
► Before 2004, (i.e. Facebook evolution)
offensive contents were regulated by means
of mail and MMS.
► Regulating personal mailbox , chat history or
history on sites like Facebook, Skype will not
be acceptable by each user.
► Each and every social media site gives
importance to the privacy settings, it
depends on user to make use of it.
► Options like spam and block are available for
user who are not comfortable with the
content.
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“FACEBOOK” view on topic
We want Facebook to be a
place where people can discuss
things freely, while respecting the
rights and feelings of others, which
is why we already have policies
and on-site features in place that
enable people to report abusive
content. We will remove any
content that violates our terms,
which are designed to keep
material that is hateful,
threatening, incites violence or
contains nudity off the service.
Regulation on Social media has to be controlled
by the user’s themselves. It must be such form of
control that, it would not interfere with the general and
specific human and fundamental rights of the people,
in specific, the right to freedom of speech and
expression.
Specially in the worlds largest democracy.
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