India orders social media firms to remove unlawful content within three hours (www.bbc.com)
from schizoidman@lemmy.zip to world@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 11:58
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The amended guidelines will take effect from 20 February and apply to major platforms including Meta, YouTube and X. They will also apply to AI-generated content.

critics worry the move is part of a broader tightening of oversight of online content and could lead to censorship in the world’s largest democracy with more than a billion internet users

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 12:22 collapse

in the world’s largest democracy

I hate how India brags about the amount of eligible voters like that makes up for being middle of the road democracy index:

www.idea.int/gsod/2024/countries/

Which doesn’t sound bad until you realize that’s out of every country including open dictatorships.