{"id":30498,"date":"2018-10-26T16:28:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T10:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30498"},"modified":"2018-10-26T16:28:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T10:58:02","slug":"centre-plans-law-on-online-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-plans-law-on-online-hate-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre plans law on online hate speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/centre-moves-for-law-on-online-abuse\/article23295440.ece\"><strong>Centre plans law on online hate speech<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moving a step ahead towards framing a distinct law for online \u201chate speech,\u201d the Home Ministry has written to the Law Commission to prepare a draft law<\/li>\n<li>The provisions will deal with offensive messages sent through social media and online messaging applications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>T.K Viswanathan Committee recommendations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A committee headed by former Lok Sabha Secretary General T.K. Viswanathan submitted a report recommending stricter laws to curb online hate speech<\/li>\n<li>The panel was formed after Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, was scrapped by the Supreme Court in 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Proposed Law<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whoever on grounds of religion, race, caste or community, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, place of birth, residence, language, disability or tribe, uses any means of communication to &#8211; (a) gravely threaten any person or group of persons with the intention to cause fear of injury or alarm; or (b) advocate hatred towards any person or group of persons that causes, or is likely to cause, incitement to commit an offence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Next?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Law Commission has been asked to include its earlier recommendations, and those from the Viswanathan and M.P. Bezbaruah committees, to give a \u201ccomprehensive draft law\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bezbaruah Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bezbaruah Committee was constituted by the Centre in February 2014 in the wake of a series of racial attacks on persons belonging to the northeast<\/li>\n<li>Though the committee submitted its report in July 2014, the Home Ministry sent out letters to States for their opinion almost four years later, in February this year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centre plans law on online hate speech What has happened? Moving a step ahead towards framing a distinct law for online \u201chate speech,\u201d the Home Ministry has written to the Law Commission to prepare a draft law The provisions will deal with offensive messages sent through social media and online messaging applications T.K Viswanathan Committee&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-plans-law-on-online-hate-speech\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Centre plans law on online hate speech<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704934344},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30498","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}