Social media has always been a challenge for Indian
government. From time to time regulation
of social media in India was advocated. However, till now Indian
government has not been able to deal with this issue effectively.
This is a tricky issue as well. On the one hand
India has to manage conflict
of laws in cyberspace whereas on the other hand civil
liberties protection in cyberspace must be respected.
Above all, India must maintain a balance
between civil liberties and national security as well.
It has been reported that home ministry of India
intends to take legal
action against person posting misleading news at Facebook
regarding Rajnath Singh’s son. Further, it has also been reported
that Indian government would ask social media websites to locate
their servers in India so that legal compliances of Indian laws would
be easier.
We at Perry4Law
believe that sooner or later foreign websites would be required
to establish their servers in India. However, this is not possible
till Indian government formulate techno
legal framework to regulate Indian cyberspace.
Merely asking the social media websites to locate
their servers in India would not help. A tough stand has to be taken
by Indian government in this regard and the exercise to formulate a
techno legal framework must be started as soon as possible.
