Tag: regulation

Crypto Crazed: Regulating digital assets

It’s always the same old story. Computer nerds develop disruptive technologies that threaten to upend traditional economics and alter human conduct. Legal regulators then clamber to make sense of shifting market forces and domesticating the animal. In recent history, Cryptocurrencies are the latest of troublesome creations that have been vexing…

Should Twitter even be picking a fight with the Indian government?

By Ranjeev C DubeyRegulation

While media reports on Twitter losing its “intermediary status” may have misled some readers, it is increasingly clear that the government is determined to bring all social media to heel. To this end, the new Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines etc) Rules, 2021, compel “significant social media intermediaries” to implement additional…

Regulating content in the age of social media

By Rohin DubeyRegulation

Back in 2018, Facebook’s highest executives met every other Tuesday to discuss the problems of misinformation, hate speech, and other disturbing content spread across their platforms. These discussions resulted in the establishment of the Content Standards Forum run by Facebook’s lower level administrators. The working group at this forum considers…