If the rules are struck down by SC, it would be okay. A website owner is different from a newspaper editor. This fact must be argued before SC. Hopefully, SC would go in tandem with international trends, a website owner is not mandated to exercise censorship, but must remove any offending/illegal content if give notice of the same by law enforcement agencies...
-----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Kotian, H P Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 10:34 AM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: [AI] SC to examine validity of IT rules making online censorship mandatory for portal Legal experts Please enlighten us on the impact this ruling could have on the functioning of AccessIndia. In my personal opinion this is very bitter to swallow and violative of Fundamental rights. Anyways, read on. Harish Kotian The Supreme Court has agreed to examine the validity of Information Technology Rules making it mandatory for a website owner to screen content and exercise online censorship of the contents posted on the portal. A bench of Justices T S Thakur and S J Mukhopadhaya issued the notice to the Centre and all the states on a PIL filed by a company which runs a portal challenging Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011. Source: http://allindiaradio.nic.in/default.aspx# Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Caution: The Reserve Bank of India never sends mails, smses or makes calls asking for personal information like your bank account details, passwords, etc. It never keeps or offers funds to anyone. Please do not respond in any manner to such offers, however official or attractive they may look. Notice: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this email by error, please notify us by return e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Reserve Bank of India accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
