Agama Law Associates Partner Nitin Jain shares his views on the draft IT rules and government control on dissemination of information in an article by The Financial Express titled “Fact check by PIB under IT rules: Experts fear govt control over news!”
PIB Fact Check Proposal
“This proposal if approved would make the government the ultimate authority of what news is or what news should be….The past instances show a high probability that only the misinformation against the government would be removed, while allowing the other misinformation online, thereby affecting the public at large and undermining their trust on all news outlets and mediums,” said Nitin Jain, partner Agama Law Associates.
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