The Indian government says it wants to crack down on fake news. Critics worry it wants to censor content creators–and everyone else.

The Indian government is proposing that content creators and other social media users should be governed by the same “code of ethics” as registered news publishers, and that social media platforms should be stripped of their safe harbor protections if they allow content that violates this code. Basically, the proposal boils down to this: If […] Visit Tubefilter for more great stories.

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