Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, in an exclusive conversation with Zee News Editor-in-Chief, talks about the new OTT and social media guidelines. The Union Minister said that “double standards of social media will not be acceptable.”Prasad said that some people misuse the freedom of expression and that is not acceptable. In an effort to curb the misuse of digital platforms, including digital news, social media and over-the-top (OTT) streaming services, the Centre on Thursday announced new guidelines aimed at regulating content on digital platforms. Also read Facebook says it will carefully study India's new social media guidelines"Social media is welcome for doing business in India, but such content is coming on social media, which cannot be called civilized in any way. Complaints of wrong use of social media have been coming for many years, there is also the menace of fake news.

Source: dna February 25, 2021 16:13 UTC