Delhi HC grants MeitY time to frame rules for content on OTT platforms

The Delhi High Court on Monday granted some time to the Centre to inform it about the steps taken for regulating content on social media and over-the-top (OTT) platforms.

The high court on March 6 asked the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) to take steps to enforce its rules on content creation with regard to the intermediaries such as social media and OTT platform, as notified in Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 and make laws as it deemed appropriate.