The government on Friday tweaked IT rules to pave the way for the creation of appeals panels, which will deal with issues users may face compared to the way social media platforms resolve their complaints initially regarding content and other issues.
These committees will be able to review content moderation decisions by social media company like Meta and Twitter.
‘Complaints Appellate Committees’ will be established within three months, according to a notice in the Gazette on Friday.
Incidentally, this move happened at a time when the CEO of the electric car maker Tesla, Elon Muskcompleted the $44 billion acquisition of Twitter (nearly Rs 3,62,300.
However, the IT rule changes have been in the works for months, since users red-flagged instances of digital platforms acting arbitrarily. The latest move will provide users with a complaints mechanism in the form of appellate committees that will review complaints by individuals against the decisions of the complaints officers of social media platforms. festival.
The amendment to the IT rules was announced on Friday.
“The central government will, by notice, establish one or more appellate committees within three months of the commencement of the Information Technology Amendment Code (Intermediate Guidelines and Code of Ethics for Communications). digital), in 2022,” the announcement said.
Each appeals committee shall be composed of a chairperson and two full-time members appointed by the central government, of which one will be a full member and two will be independent members.
“Any person affected by the complaint officer’s decision may wish to appeal to the appeals committee within thirty days of receiving notice from the complaints officer,” it said.
The appeals board will resolve the appeal “expeditiously” and attempt to resolve the final appeal within thirty calendar days of receipt of the appeal.
