The government has asked Meta to align its content policies with Indian laws and cultural context while seeking stronger safeguards against deepfakes and child sexual abuse material. Officials also want greater human oversight and transparency around content moderation and algorithms
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the government is trying to make laws simple and understandable to the common man but the system has been ingrained in the same framework and he was trying to pull it out of that.
There is freedom of speech but Article 19A says that this is subject to reasonable restrictions," the Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information Technology told in the Rajya Sabha