The government on Friday said it would set up an appeals panel amid concerns users had no recourse if they objected to moderation decisions of firms such as Meta, Twitter or Google.
It plans to do this through policy changes that have often irked companies who complain about excessive compliance burden. But they failed to reach a consensus –Google was opposed to external reviews, as Reuters reported in August.India’s Minister of State for IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, told Reuters in an interview on Saturday New Delhi could still consider industry self-regulation as government-led reviews “are not something that we want to spend a lot of time doing”.
During a press briefing on Saturday, Chandrasekhar said the current system of in-house grievance redressal at tech companies was “broken”.These include politicians, citing violation of its policies.
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