Asaduddin Owaisi slams draft IT rules as threat to independent journalism

Hyderabad

Criticising the draught IT rules, Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi said that the Central government’s attack gave an content that they are are “allergic to escaped press”.

Taking to X, Mr. Owaisi, who is the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), stated that if the rules are notified, they would empower the authorities to prohibition online contented published by autarkic journalists.

He stated that specified a determination would person far-reaching ramifications, particularly successful presumption of entree to information, peculiarly successful a media scenery wherever a conception of the audiences has been progressively relying connected autarkic journalists for sum of issues.

He said that autarkic journalism plays a captious relation successful identifying and countering misinformation and disinformation, including the usage of coordinated “toolkits” to dispersed mendacious narratives. Without specified scrutiny, helium contended, the nationalist would person constricted means of verifying the authenticity of accusation successful circulation.

He besides alleged that the draught rules bypass existing orders issued by courts, and interruption the Supreme Court’s judgement successful the Shreya Singhal case.