Players stand to lose safe harbour provisions that protect them from third party content; platforms that do not act as intermediaries may be treated as publishers, held accountable for hosted content
The pleas have challenged the new rules on the grounds that they violate the right to privacy and are unconstitutional
The Delhi high court had earlier expressed displeasure over Twitter Inc for appointing a contingent worker as Chief Compliance Officer
The top court had earlier issued notice on a separate transfer petition filed by the Centre seeking to club all petitions filed in various high courts on the issue of regulating OTT platforms.
In its plea, the Centre said, the issue of regulating the OTT platform was pending before the top court.
The high court said Central government was free to take action against Twitter Inc in case of any breach of the new IT Rules.
Business Standard explains who can request the takedown of posts on Twitter, how they can do so, and what process the microblogging site follows before deciding to accede to the request or not
Advocate Sanjay Parikh, appearing for NGO PUCL, said prosecutions are taking place even after the provision has been struck down three years ago
On December 24, the IT Ministry released draft amendments under which social media and online platforms would need to trace originators of information when required by government agencies