Plea filed in Supreme Court to regulate social media platforms

NEW DELHI: A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking regulation of social media platforms through guidelines making them culpable under criminal and civil laws until the Parliament passes a specific law.

The petition claimed that due to the lack of government control and intervention on the social media platform Twitter, act the way they fit their way, ideology and desires.

As per reports, the plea was filed by advocate Mahek Maheshwari in a personal capacity. He sought a direction to the Centre to formulate guidelines to appeal against any kind of grievances against Twitter and all such social media platforms within a time period until a proper law is enacted.

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The plea has also sought a frame of guidelines to entrust the responsibility to the officers of ministries of electronics and IT and Information & Broadcasting to deal with grievance/complaint against the various social media platforms.

“Twitter is not having government control so it freely act unethically and shadow ban many accounts that do not suit its ideological inclination,” the petition added.

Maheshwari, in the petition, also said that “there should be no parallel ecosystem act to undermine the highest judiciary of the nation and creation of unrest, dissatisfaction among the masses.”

He further alleged that Twitter crossed all limits of lawlessness when it “supported the mocking of the highest judiciary of the nation that is also institutionally of Supreme Court of Nation and individually of the judges as well”.

The petition alleged that Twitter crossed all limits of lawlessness when it “supported the mocking of the highest judiciary of the nation that is also institutionally of Supreme Court of Nation and individually of the judges as well”

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