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NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that mere political dissent or criticism through social networking sites could not be a ground for arrest of the author but maintained that Section 66A of Information and Technology Act was meant to deal with those who threaten to harm others physically and culturally.
This stand would provide much needed relief to the cyber citizens as many in the past had been hounded by law enforcing agencies for posting "objectionable" posts in the social networking sites.
Sources in the government said the government's stance was prompted by a direct intervention by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sources said during deliberations, Modi made a strong pitch for complete freedom of expression on social media, saying that the provisions of the IT Act should be read in conformity with the Article 19(2) of the Constitution which guarantees free speech.
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Internet service providers, through senior advocate K K Venugopal, said that in a democracy the government should not have power to order them to take down some material posted on their sites as such a provision was prone to be misused for political purposes.
Additional solicitor general Tushar Mehta, citing the recent case of Twitter handle on which offensive messages on behalf of radically fundamental ISIS group were being posted, argued that such a provision was needed. But he said: "Mere political dissent or hot discussion cannot be a ground for taking action against the social networking sites and people who post such message." "This is the only media which is censor free. Emergency would have been a big fiasco had there been social media at that time," Mehta told a bench of Justices Chelameswar and S A Bobde.
The ASG also stressed that there were very few cases when the government has asked the service provider to remove such contents, even as he made a case for "reasonable" curbs.
"If through a twitter post, people are asked to join terrorist organization, then there is a reasonable ground to ask the service provider to remove the material," Mehta said.
He also said that if someone initiated action against service providers for posting "obscene" contents then there would be no protection under IT Act and the case would be adjudicated by the court.
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