{"id":70206,"date":"2020-11-20T17:55:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T12:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=70206"},"modified":"2021-05-10T18:33:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T13:03:11","slug":"regulating-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/regulating-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulating free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Context:\u00a0<\/strong>The Supreme Court\u2019s has questioned the Union government on the measures it can and is willing to take against communally slanted television coverage.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>More on news:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It appears to be an attempt to bring about a commitment to a course of action that will curb inflammatory journalism on broadcast media.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Court has distinguished between <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/regulating-free-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free speech<\/a> and \u2018hate speech\u2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Give some latest instances of partial news coverage. Also, mention the point-of-view of the Centre and the Court.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Coverage of Tablighi jamaat event:<\/strong>\u00a0The Court is hearing petitions against the communal colour given by some channels to the incidence of large clusters of COVID-19 infections among those who attended a Tablighi Jamaat event in New Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>The portrayal of the participants as intentional super-spreaders was vicious and motivated.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Case of Sudarshan news:<\/strong>\u00a0The case of Sudarshan News, which began a series on the channel that propagated hate against Muslims, is an open example.<\/li>\n<li>The government has merely administered a \u2018caution\u2019 to the channel and asked it to moderate the content of future episodes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Centre\u2019s point of view<\/strong>: The Centre\u2019s affidavit has stated that media coverage \u201cpredominantly struck a balanced and neutral perspective\u201d.\n<ul>\n<li>It further stated that it was open to the viewers to choose from a number of varying perspectives given by different media channels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Court\u2019s point of view:<\/strong>\u00a0The Court is keen to know what action has been taken under the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act against offending broadcasters.<\/li>\n<li>The Court appears unconvinced that the present mechanism of self-regulation, i.e. The National Broadcasting Standards Authority is effective.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What are the safeguards provided under the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Government\u2019s powers<\/strong>: The government is empowered under the Act to prohibit transmission of programmes that violate the programme or advertising codes (Section 19) and even an entire channel, in public interest (Section 20).<\/li>\n<li>In the past, channels have been asked by the I&amp;B Ministry to take some programmes off the air.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Penal law:\u00a0<\/strong>Depending on the damage done to individuals or institutions, or even society at large, there is enough scope for action under the penal law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Way forward<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The distinction between free speech and hate speech should be at the heart of any order creating a new mechanism; to deal with broadcast media excesses.<br \/>\n<hr \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"WAdT1o3YGx\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-mystery-behind-positron-excess-phenomenon-solved-by-researchers\/\">A Mystery Behind &#8220;Positron Excess Phenomenon&#8221; Solved by Researchers<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;A Mystery Behind &#8220;Positron Excess Phenomenon&#8221; Solved by Researchers&#8221; &#8212; Free UPSC IAS Preparation For Aspirants\" src=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-mystery-behind-positron-excess-phenomenon-solved-by-researchers\/embed\/#?secret=2pkiWy5XMh#?secret=WAdT1o3YGx\" data-secret=\"WAdT1o3YGx\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context:\u00a0The Supreme Court\u2019s has questioned the Union government on the measures it can and is willing to take against communally slanted television coverage. More on news: It appears to be an attempt to bring about a commitment to a course of action that will curb inflammatory journalism on broadcast media. The Court has distinguished between&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/regulating-free-speech\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Regulating free 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":[1230,8043,1351,1310],"tags":[1301,1581],"class_list":["post-70206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-current-affairs-cat","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","tag-po_3","tag-po_9","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704779318},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70206","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=70206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}