Government Issues Notice to WhatsApp Over Lynching Incidents, Rumour Mongering
Union Police force Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday said the government has issued notice to WhatsApp as social media companies are accountable for the misuse of their platforms.
The government issued detect to WhatsApp as rumours in the social media awarding preceded most incidences of violence, Prasad said in the Rajya Sabha while participating in a discussion on the misuse of social media.
In response, WhatsApp has placed a limit to forwarding of letters to five and identified all forwarded messages equally such, he said.
"Social media saying it is just a platform will non exist acceptable. Just as a paper cannot say it's not their responsibility if a provocative news is published, same way, if people die or are instigated to impale due to fake news on social media, and so it'south their responsibleness," he said.
The Minister said the government is cognizant that the social media is existence used as a weapon against India's interests and to incite violence, adding that the authorities is committed to taking all required actions to deter this.
All the same, Prasad, who is also the Information technology Government minister, said it would not exist wise to restrict the social media just because of a claiming, as the social media has empowered the mutual man by increasing his access to information and ability to enquire questions.
"Some people have bug with right-wing ideology and some people are averse to left fly's. If today our ideology gets such a huge stamp of approval then the followers would also exist huge … now any you call them — warriors or activists," Prasad said.
He was replying to a query by Communist Political party of India (CPI) leader D. Raja who wanted to know why the Bharatiya Janata Political party (BJP) chosen its social media workers at a contempo meeting "warriors".
On Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Derek O'Brien's charge that Facebook deleted the page of Postcard News, every bit it is a right-wing portal and propagated fake news, Prasad said: "Postcard was removed by the Facebook but there is no testify to suggest that it was propagating a detail ideology and that was the reason for removal."
Stating that the country saw 40 lynchings in xiii states in the last one year, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad questioned the government's intention to prevent such incidents.
"Although the government may be failing to catch many of the culprits backside false news and social media, I desire to enquire the government what is it doing with those it has caught," Azad said.
The Congress leader went on to charge the government and its political leaders for actually encouraging those backside the lynchings past meeting them in jails, promising support for bond and felicitating them when they are out on bail.
"I feel embarrassed when a respected primal Minister meets the accused in Nawada jail in Bihar and another Minister, who is educated abroad, garlands those accused of lynching when they are out on bail in Jharkhand. Another Parliamentarian promised all legal expenses. If the regime drops these ministers, MPs and MLAs, and takes legal actions against them, all lynchings would stop in the land in 4 days," said Azad.
Source: https://beebom.com/india-whatsapp-notice-lynching/
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