Open to self-regulation by social media firms: Govt

The government has decided to form grievance appellate committees to look into complaints by users of social media firms as currently there’s no self-regulation mechanism in place. Minister of state (MoS) for electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Tuesday said if intermediaries – such as Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc — come up with a proposal for self-regulatory or self-redressal appellate mechanism, the government would surely consider it.