SC seeks Centre’s reply on plea to regulate Netflix, Amazon Prime Video content

BENGALURU: The Supreme Court has sought the Centre’s views on a petition that calls for regulation of content on video streaming platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, renewing a debate on censorship and freedom of expression.

The petition seeks the formulation of guidelines or legislation to regulate content to block what it describes as sexually explicit, vulgar and violent content. The special leave petition was filed by an NGO called Justice for Rights Foundation (JRF) against a decision of the Delhi High Court, which had dismissed its public interest litigation calling for censorship in February. The NGO was represented by advocate Harpreet Singh Hora.