SC to examine plea on obscene online content

PIL urges government to act against OTT, social media platforms

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The Supreme Court yesterday agreed to examine a plea seeking directions to the government to take immediate and decisive action to regulate explicit content on social media and OTT platforms.

A bench of Justices B.R. Gavai and A.G. Masih issued a notice to the Centre, observing that the petition raised an issue of “important concern” with regard to the display of objectionable, obscene and indecent content on social media and OTT platforms.

Apart from the Union government, notices were issued to Netflix, Amazon, Ullu, ALTT, MUBI, Google, X Corp (formerly Twitter), Apple and Meta.