Centre working on law to protect Indian media from Big Tech: Rajeev Chandrasekhar
India Today
"The ministry of technology will protect the Indian media. Laws are needed to protect the Indian media. Many countries have already done it," Rajeev Chandrasekhar said.
Profiting on the back of the Indian news industry? This practice of big technology giants won't last long with the government now jumping in to protect the Indian media houses.
"The government is working on the IT Law to protect Indian media from big tech companies. The law will make sure that the Indian media is not at a disadvantage when dealing with the likes of Google and Facebook," Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the Minister of State of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), told India Today TV in an exclusive interview.
"The ministry of technology will protect the Indian media. Laws are needed to protect the Indian media. Many countries have already done it," he said.
The Centre isn't the first to look at these laws. Across the globe, governments are waking up to the business model of the Big Tech companies.
The model adopted by these companies has been detrimental to the media houses and publishers.
For media houses across the globe, this hasn't been an easy task. From Australia to France to India, bringing Facebook and Google to the table has been an uphill task, given their sheer might.
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