Centre wants Supreme Court to get tough with FB, YouTube

Centre wants Supreme Court to get tough with FB, YouTube

News:

1. Center to take strict action to curb circulation of videos of sexual violence.

Important facts:

2. Government has shown concern over inadequate efforts taken by Internet giant like Facebook and YouTube to curb circulation of videos of sexual violence against women and children.

3. Thus government want “stricter directions” to these service providers from the Supreme Court

4. Direction seeks to reduce the time taken to remove the inappropriate content from these websites to 10 hours from existing 36 hours

5. Particularly government focusing on videos related to child pornography and rape.

6. Government wants service provider (e.g. Facebook) should employ an agency for identification and removal of content and include Monitoring tool.

7. Major concern of the government is tracing the origin of unlawful data.

8. However despite of Supreme Court order, the compliance by the service providers to provide data was mediocre.

9. Recently intermediaries WhatsApp has refused to provide certain data with law enforcement agencies to identify the origin of fake news.

10. Currently, on the issue of assistance to law enforcement agencies on identification of offender, the response is often delayed and Meta data of end to end communication is not provided.

11. Government has provided list of over 500 words in English and Hindi to service providers to issue warning message when end user try to search videos of sexually violence.

12. Implementation of easy reporting mechanism is the need of an hour.