The Centre has assured the Delhi High Court that it will incorporate necessary rules and regulations in its future policies to regulate social media platforms and intermediaries for making them safer from the use of vulgar language, including profanity, bad words, etc.
In the compliance report filed before the court, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology stated that as “part of its regular exercise on policymaking for the techno-legal ecosystem, it gives due consideration to the observations of this honourable court in its judgment to regulate the social media platforms/intermediaries for making it safer from the use of vulgar languages”.
The High Court had earlier underlined the need for framing rules and guidelines to regulate the content on social media and OTT platforms. It had underscored the need for taking seriously the use of vulgar language in public domain and on social media platforms which are open to children of tender age.
