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Safe Harbor for Social Media Platforms
May 15 , 2025
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- The Centre govt is reconsidering the concept of safe harbour for the social media platforms, to combat the issue of “fake news” online.
- Safe harbour is a legal concept that protects individual websites that allow third party users to share content from legal liability for any unlawful posts.
- Safe harbour protects the sites, by default, from any criminal action for content hosted by them.
- Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000, grants the intermediaries’ similar protections.
- In India, if an intermediary receives “actual knowledge” of illegal content on their website, they lose liability protections under Section 79 if they don’t work to take the content down within a certain time period.
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