PM's roadmap to protection of fundamental rights, top quotes by MoS Chandrasekhar to Arnab

Day after announcement of amendments in Information and Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, Union Minister of State for Entrepreneurship, Skill Development, Electronics & Technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar highlighted that rules have been me so that every Indian citizen is respected on social media platforms. 

While speaking exclusively to Republic Media Network's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami on 'Nation Wants to Know', MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that Centre, as a legal process for first time, has ensured protection of fundamental rights of citizens on foreign platforms by bringing m under ambit of IT Rules.       

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Here are top 10 quotes of MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar that he mentioned during 'Nation Wants to Know':

"IT rules from last two years laid basis that Internet in India should be open, safe and trusted and accountable for all Digital Nagrik and Digital citizens of India. Our PM who has unleashed so much innovation in country has laid out a romap for next dece being a huge digital transformation and has set a goal of a trillion dollar digital economy by 2026."

"Government is not supervising internet. boundary conditions Modi government uses for tech space is that internet must be open- free from any state or any corporate influence. internet must be safe & trusted because y are real people who use Internet. ir safety and trust in internet should always be maintained. Internet must have accountability between big tech platforms and users."

"B for Indian citizens, b for Digital Nagrik includes- cyber security, cyber frauds, child sexual abuse, trafficking of people, pornography, invasion of or’s privacy. re has a whole series of things. re are 10 conditions that have been laid down in rules which intermediaries are obliged to follow."

"I'll be very clear that rules are not designed for company A or company B. Essentially, I repeat again. Our goal and objective is to partner with every internet intermediary with ultimate goal that internet is a space where 120 crore Indians can safely come and do what y do. I think it is very important to understand that this is not versarial to any platform. se are rules that platforms must follow in India if y have to maintain status of being intermediaries.

"If any intermediary chooses to not follow rules; it's completely up to m, it is ir choice, y (will) lose status of being an intermediary almost immediately. Of course, we are a democracy. We are a country with a robust judicial system. y have right wher y are an American company or an Indian company, y have right to go to court and seek justice for what y believe is unfair or wrong. But consequences of not following rules are clear."

"Frankly, se rules and regulations apply to any platform regardless of who ir owner is, what ideology of owner is or what ideology of users of platform is. se are rules to ensure that internet in India is always safe."

" right to no discrimination, right to free speech, right to privacy, and life, cannot be violated by any platform. government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi Ji is a trusty of se fundamental rights. We don't need a foreign platform or a foreign media house, or ir friends in Delhi to tell us about protecting Constitutional rights of Indian citizens. We consider it our duty. We consider our duty to deliver our citizens a safe internet, and to deliver accountable relationships between big tech platforms and Indian citizen, and rules are meant to do that."

"Grievance Appellate Committee is not a power-grab, recourse if redressal process of platform is insufficient. We've noticed many platforms have appointed grievance officers naam-ke-vaaste only. That's unacceptable."

"Every Indian digital citizen, who is using a service or product on digital platform, must have his or her grievance 100% dressed.

"We're largest connected democracy in World. This is not a small internet, it's going to be one of largest cyberspaces in world. We want it to be a partnership between government, industry and user."