“External Agency to review content before streaming on OTT platforms? Government proposes, Industry objects”, Swarajyamag, July 15, 2023:
“Amid rising public anger against sexually explicit, morally questionable and offensive content on audio-video services, the Indian government has asked the OTT platforms to have their content independently reviewed for violence and obscenity before it’s put online, Reuters has exclusively reported.
The report says that the Information and Broadcasting Ministry made the proposal to representatives of the industry at a meeting on 20 June. The proposal was made on behalf of Members of Parliament, citizen groups and the public. The government talked of a ‘code of ethics’ and asked the international content to be included in the proposed review.
Industry representatives objected to the proposal, but the government asked them to consider it, says the report…..”
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