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Hindustan Times East UP
|November 29, 2025
The apex court's directive on user-generated content is timely — but policy should be nuanced to filter bad content and not throttle free speech
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When the Supreme Court directed the Centre this week to draft guidelines within four weeks for regulating user-generated content, itacknowledgeda problem technology companies have long preferred to ignore.
This story is from the November 29, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times East UP.
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