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Two students have filed a petition before the Supreme Court looking out for the formation of a mechanism, which works effectively to prevent the jeopardy caused by fake social media accounts, in order to stop the spreading of salacious and illegitimate content.
Skand Bajpai and Abhyudaya Mishra in their plea seek, for the operation of a bona fide investigation and legal proceedings against those users whose social media profiles have showcase of illegal content and personal visual information. They also seek for the institution of an amendment to the subsisting laws or legislation of a gender-neutral law in order to strongly criminalize distortion of images, revenge porn and mutation. They have also adjured the Court to send a direction to the Court to delete such unlawful content.
It is also postulated in the plea that platforms that broad cast such illegal content should be held responsible in order to stop such activities.
The plea states:
“There is a need to hold the intermediaries liable and accountable for the content featuring on their platform and increase their coordination and accountability with regard to Indian jurisdictions,”
The petitioners have stimulated the reporting of CSAM to be obligatory so that the concerned intermediaries can be held liable. Implementation of Information Technology 2018, which set forth guidelines to be observed by the concerned platforms has also been sought for.
The absence of a law keeping in check the eligibility of children for access to social media in contrary to the developed countries have been pointed out by the petitioners. They have urged for the legislation of a law which would control the access of minors to social media also stating a suitable age for such access supporting the legal foundation of India.
Among other things, the need to instil sex education in the National Education Policy for creating awareness among teenagers for their safety online and drafting of an apt law for the verification of social media profiles have been urged to be directed to the Government
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