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News:
- The government’s proposal for social media communication hub plan dropped.
Important facts:
2. The proposal was supposed to perform the following functions:
- Monitor social media traffic.
- Create a social media hub to create a technology architecture that merged mass surveillance with a capacity for disinformation.
- The proposal was supposed to monitor social media traffic.
- It supposed to create a platform to collect digital media chatter from all core social media platforms as well as digital platforms.
3. The withdrawal is the outcome of the apex court’s fear that it may create a surveillance state.
4. According to the Supreme Court, it may pose a danger in a country where privacy is a fundamental right.
