‘IT rules impose chilling effect on free speech’: TM Krishna moves Madras HC

The Madras High Court has issued a notice to the Government of India in a plea filed by Carnatic musical vocalist and writer, TM Krishna, on the new Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021, Live Law reported.

In a petition filed by the Internet Freedom Foundation on behalf of Krishna, the Ramon Magsaysay awardee writes that the rules, “offend my right as an artist and cultural commentator by both imposing a chilling effect on free speech, and by impinging on my right to privacy.”

Krishna challenges that the rules are against the Constitution of India and the IT Act 2000.

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