May include provisions to stop shadow banning in Digital India Act: MoS IT

Amid disturbing disclosures about microblogging site Twitter blacklisting content and preventing disfavoured tweets from trending, the Indian government on Friday said that it may ponder on including provisions in the proposed Digital India Act to prevent this kind of shadow banning or “visibility filtering”.

Minister of State for IT and electronics Rajeev Chandrasekhar told media persons that the government won’t allow weaponisation of information and added that though the ministry had pre-empted such threats while notifying the amended IT rules last month, in the light of this revelation, it could think of including stricter provisions to prevent such activities in the proposed Digital India Act.