Policing the internet: Online news is a gaggle in face of regulation

The final part of the series looks at online news, as a regulatory regime for online content is being put in place

The video on making rotis? Or the sites offering false narratives of Indian history. Or will it be the ones that report real news, not propaganda. As the first building blocks of a regulatory architecture around digital news fall in place, a guessing game on what will be hit has begun.

The first block on November 9 brought digital and online media under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB). The second, on November 16, had outlined steps to reduce foreign direct investment (FDI) to 26 per cent in outlets “uploading/streaming news and current affairs through digital media”.