Demands made to SC by Union Govt:
- Service providers should reduce the time taken by to comply with content removal requests under the IT Act to less than 10 hours from about 36 hours at present.
- Besides deploying ‘proactive monitoring tools’, service providers should employ agencies for removal of sexually violent content (esp. related to child pornography and rape).
- Services providers should share certain data with law enforcement agencies to identify the origin of such content. The issue of tracing the origin of “unlawful” content is already a bone of contention between the government and WhatsApp due to its misuse to spread fake news.
