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Working journalists’ representatives connected Saturday (April 11, 2026) gathered to talk retired against expanding censorship online, and the projected changes to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, astatine the Press Club of India. “I fearfulness this volition beryllium not conscionable censorship, but selective censorship,” freelance writer Jatin Gandhi said astatine the meeting.
The IT Rules’ projected amendment, for which the authorities has present extended the past day to the extremity of April, volition springiness the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting much authorization implicit idiosyncratic journalists unaffiliated to immoderate organisation. That could wounded freelance journalists, said Ritika Jain, an autarkic reporter.
