Big Tech urges India to relax new IT rules as Indonesia fixes them (Lead)

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In a letter to the IT Ministry, a coalition representing Apple, Meta, Google, Amazon, Twitter, and Spotify, among others, said that the changes proposed in the new IT rules 2021 will affect the sustainability in business operations for all intermediaries who have significant investment In this country in connection with technology, labor, and other resources.

The coalition says that the intermediary, as conceived by section 79 of the IT law, only provides a technology platform or computer resource as a service to the user.

In the end the user determines the nature of the content to be communicated or transmitted on the platform/computer resources operated by the intermediary. Considering this, it might be more useful for imposing a mandate that prohibits the spread of certain types of content to the user itself, “he said.

The draft published by the Ministry of TI has revealed a plan to form an appeal panel that can reverse the decision of content moderation by large technology companies. The new IT rules also need a large social media platform to help the government track messages in special cases.

The coalition says that Meity must enable the industry to adopt the mechanism of recovery of complaints itself as an alternative to the Committee Committee of Complaints (GAC).

The mechanism of self -regulation led by the industry will enable the business to adopt the best practice and ensure a long -term solution by identifying trends and gaps. In this case, we ask Meity for a period of at least six months to apply such a mechanism of self -regulation,” said the group .

Letters to the IT Ministry came as Indonesia, a country with a population of nearly 28 crores, forced meta platforms and Google to comply with new rules for large technology that gave the authorities to block social media applications and online sites.Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp registered for new rules before the deadline on Wednesday.

AIC said that they further recommended this new requirement – a deadline of 24 hours to recognize requests to block or suspend users, or delete information relating to regulations 3 (1) (b), and will shorten the period of compensation for complaints to 72 hours for Certain content – limited to intermediary services that have a tendency to be shown.

This obligation should only be attached to the service or part of the service that allows the material to share material with all end users, and where the intermediaries are reasonable to know, based on past experience, that there is a tendency for material that is strengthened or accessed virally on the service,” The letter argues.

This coalition aims to attract the attention of the Ministry of IT on the fact that an example of non-compliance by intermediaries can cause loss of safe port protection under IT laws.

We ask Meity to consider providing clarity about the way in which the expectations of the ‘complete test, privacy and transparency’ of the user must be fulfilled more than and above the existing compliance that is in Indian law,” he added.