Google LLC has told the Delhi High Court that it cannot be directed to proactively monitor YouTube or prevent the recurrence of allegedly unauthorised recordings of court proceedings, contending that as an intermediary it neither creates nor controls third-party content and cannot be burdened with an obligation to police millions of videos uploaded on its platform.
In an affidavit filed before the High Court in the PIL concerning the circulation of videos of the April 13 hearing in Arvind Kejriwal's recusal plea, Google submitted that YouTube is merely an intermediary under the Information Technology Act, 2000, and that liability, if any, rests with the publisher or uploader of the content rather than the platform.
