Parliament Panel Wants A Regulator For Facebook, Twitter: Report
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The panel is asking for tighter rules because current laws treating these social media platforms as intermediaries hasn't done enough in terms of regulation.
A parliamentary panel has recommended setting up a regulator to oversee Twitter and Facebook as they should be seen as publishers, according to people with knowledge with the matter, effectively reducing the legal protection from user content posted on their social media platforms.
The high-level committee made those recommendations as it reviewed the personal data protection bill introduced in 2019 that seeks to protect users' privacy and enforce strict controls on how Western companies such as Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Amazon.com Inc. collect, process and store data.
The panel is asking for tighter rules because current laws treating these social media platforms as intermediaries hasn't done enough in terms of regulation. Also, the current provisions in the personal data protection bill is too broad, said the two people who are not authorized to speak to the media.
The people said a mechanism may be devised for social media platforms to be held accountable for content also coming from unverified accounts.
