The Bombay high court on Thursday asked the Central government to clarify why it was planning to constitute a fact checking unit (FCU) for online content when there was no such regulatory mechanism in place for print media which too disbursed information against the government and its policies.
The court also wanted to know why there was no provision in the amended Information Technology (IT) Rules for the FCU to issue a show cause notice to the aggrieved or affected person to justify or defend the content they had posted on the internet.
The HC posed these questions while hearing a bunch of petitions filed by satirist Kunal Kamra, the Editors Guild of India (EGI), the Association of Magazines, and the News Broadcasters and Digital Association, which had challenged the…
