{"id":78965,"date":"2021-01-29T19:26:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T13:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=78965"},"modified":"2021-01-30T10:43:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T05:13:54","slug":"stopping-hate-on-tv-is-essential-to-prevent-riots-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/stopping-hate-on-tv-is-essential-to-prevent-riots-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopping hate on TV is essential to prevent riots: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the news?<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Supreme Court in a recent hearing has said that stopping hate on television is essential for law and order.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What was the case? <\/strong>A batch of petitions alleged that certain sections of the media communalized the Tablighi Jamaat congregation. It linked the congregation to a spike in the spread of COVID-19 infection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Key<\/b><strong> Highlights of the Supreme Court Order:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Supreme Court said that the Fair and truthful reporting is not a problem. The problem arises when the reporting is used to agitate others.<\/li>\n<li>Hence, it asked the Central Government about its powers under Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Act 1994. Under this act, the government can control the broadcast of content (by electronic media) that has a tendency to incite violence.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Government Response: <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Solicitor General said that the Government has powers to regulate or prohibit the transmission or re-transmission of any channel or programme for public order.<\/li>\n<li>There is also a group under the Ministry to monitor broadcast content for violation.<\/li>\n<li>However, the problem arises during live, discussion-based programmes, as there cannot be pre-censorship of such programmes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/stopping-hate-on-tv-as-essential-as-police-lathis-barricades-to-prevent-riots-sc\/article33683634.ece\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the news? The Supreme Court in a recent hearing has said that stopping hate on television is essential for law and order. What was the case? A batch of petitions alleged that certain sections of the media communalized the Tablighi Jamaat congregation. It linked the congregation to a spike in the spread of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/stopping-hate-on-tv-is-essential-to-prevent-riots-sc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stopping hate on TV is essential to prevent riots: SC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":79126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1415,1293],"class_list":["post-78965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public","tag-gov_0","tag-sec_1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Stopping_hate_on_TV-min-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700791799,"cached_date":1704811522},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78965","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=78965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}