NO&T Asia Legal Review
Introduction
On 25 February 2021, the Government India notified the new Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (“New Intermediary Rules”) under the Information Technology Act, 2000 (“IT Act”) in supersession of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines) Rules, 2011. The New Intermediary Rules impose additional obligations on intermediaries, in particular, social media intermediaries and aim to regulate online content by prescribing a code of ethics. The New Intermediary Rules will be jointly administered by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) which will regulate obligations on intermediaries and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) which will administer the code of ethics and related procedures applicable to publishers of digital content. The key provisions of the New Intermediary Rules are summarized below.
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