The Delhi High Court asked the Centre government to respond to previous decision of the court wherein the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology was directed to take steps to enforce its rules on content containing obscene language with respect to intermediaries such as OTT platforms.
A single-judge bench of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma noted that the HC had rendered certain directions in its judgment on March 6 in a plea challenging orders directing for registration of an FIR against TVF Media Labs Pvt Ltd, the casting director of web series ‘College Romance’ and its lead actors.
The HC had pulled up TVF Media Labs, which is streamed on platforms such as SonyLiv, YouTube, and the petitioner’s own platform — TVF Play. The court said that “online content curator” and “intermediaries” are in clear violation of Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code), Rules 2021 as neither there was any classification nor any warning regarding the profanity of language or excessive use of expletives.
“The web series was available to every age group. Therefore, this web series also stood covered under violation of the Rules of 2021,” the HC had said.
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