{"id":189783,"date":"2022-06-10T20:57:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T15:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=189783"},"modified":"2022-06-10T20:57:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T15:27:44","slug":"moderations-broken-but-this-isnt-the-way-to-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/moderations-broken-but-this-isnt-the-way-to-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderation\u2019s broken but this isn\u2019t the way to fix it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology(MEITY) has released a fresh draft of the amendment to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-it-rules-for-social-media-and-ott-platforms-explained-pointwise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Information Technology(IT) Rules 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h5>What are the draft new amendments to the IT Rules,2021?<\/h5>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 99.8647%;\"><strong>Read here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-govt-seeks-fresh-comments-on-draft-it-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Union Govt seeks fresh comments on Draft IT Rules<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5>What are the issues associated with the draft amendments?<\/h5>\n<p><strong>1)<\/strong> State oversight of moderation could open the doors for overreach and censorship, <strong>2)<\/strong> There will be debates on free speech in social media as the state-appointed entity judging the contents, <strong>3) Challenges with last year IT rules<\/strong>: Many of last year\u2019s IT Rules were legally challenged and both the Bombay and Madras high courts have stayed provisions that asked digital news companies to comply with a three-tier grievance redressal mechanism headed by the government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: India\u2019s last year IT rules asked for messages to be traceable, for instance, which would technically require all chats decrypted.<\/p>\n<h5>What could be done?<\/h5>\n<p><strong>The idea of self-regulation by platforms<\/strong>: Authorities worldwide have been trying to hold Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc, accountable for the spread of fake information. Globally, Facebook has an oversight board that has not achieved much. Their self-regulation addresses only a fraction of disputes between users and moderators.<\/p>\n<p>India could have a pan-industry panel containing eminent Indian jurists and other such citizens known for their independence to oversee an arbitration team. Further, they should be equipped with resources and expertise to resolve a rising number of complaints.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cModeration\u2019s broken but this isn\u2019t the way to fix it\u201d<\/strong> published in the \u201c<strong>Livemint<\/strong>\u201d on\u00a0<strong>10<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0June 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology(MEITY) has released a fresh draft of the amendment to the\u00a0Information Technology(IT) Rules 2021. What are the draft new amendments to the IT Rules,2021? Read here:\u00a0Union Govt seeks fresh comments on Draft IT Rules What are the issues associated with the draft amendments? 1) State oversight of moderation&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/moderations-broken-but-this-isnt-the-way-to-fix-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Moderation\u2019s broken but this isn\u2019t the way to fix it<\/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":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10501],"class_list":["post-189783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704836709},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189783","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=189783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}