{"id":115468,"date":"2021-06-29T20:43:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=115468"},"modified":"2021-07-01T11:59:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T06:29:34","slug":"no-hc-relief-to-digital-news-portals-seeking-stay-on-it-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/no-hc-relief-to-digital-news-portals-seeking-stay-on-it-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"No HC relief to digital news portals seeking stay on IT rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Source<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/delhi\/delhi-hc-refuses-to-stay-the-implementation-of-new-it-rules-for-digital-news-portals-7379263\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Indian Express<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What is the news:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The digital news portals seek a stay on the applicability of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 on digital news media. But the Delhi High Court has declined to pass any order in favor of the digital news portals.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What did the digital news portals\u00a0argue?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The digital news portals argued that\u00a0the executive power to virtually dictate content to digital news portals would squarely violate Article 14 and 19 (1)(a) of the Constitution.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"5\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">They also argue that the rules create a space for the state to enter and control news by way of deletion, modification or blocking, censure, compelled apology and more.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"6\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But the Delhi High\u00a0Court rejected the arguments.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Read more:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"7\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-it-rules-for-social-media-and-ott-platforms-explained-pointwise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021<\/span><\/b><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"8\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-it-rules-for-social-media-and-its-challenges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">New IT Rules for Social Media and its challenges \u2013 Explained, Pointwise<\/span><\/b><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0The Indian Express\u00a0 What is the news: The digital news portals seek a stay on the applicability of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 on digital news media. But the Delhi High Court has declined to pass any order in favor of the digital news portals.\u00a0 What did the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/no-hc-relief-to-digital-news-portals-seeking-stay-on-it-rules\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No HC relief to digital news portals seeking stay on IT rules<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[8192],"class_list":["post-115468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-new-it-rules","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704957817},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}