A Student Went To The Court To Seek A Ban On Telegram App in India
A educatee named Athena Solomon studying inwards the National Law School Of Republic of Republic of India University, Bengaluru moved to the High Court of Kerala to seek a ban on the pop messaging platform Telegram for promoting adult content.
According to her, Telegram has larn the primary in addition to the safest medium to spread vulgar in addition to sexual content peculiarly child pornography in addition to terrorism. It is to hold out noted that kid pornography has been completely banned inwards India.
Athena Solomon filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition inwards the Kerala High Court to ban the Telegram app inwards the country.
Telegram is a cloud-based messaging platform launched inwards Russian Federation inwards 2013. The app allows for 'anonymous bots' which tin hold out used to post hugger-mugger messages across the platform without compromising the identity of the sender.
Section 79(3) of the Information Technology Act 2000 states that a companionship is saltation to take away obscene in addition to inappropriate content if asked yesteryear the appropriate authorities. According to the petitioner, this human activity cannot hold out enforced on Telegram because the messaging platform has no nodal officeholder or whatever registered percentage inwards India. Moving to other social messaging services inwards Republic of Republic of India similar WhatsApp in addition to Facebook convey their nodal officers in addition to registered percentage inwards India, therefore they tin hold out asked anytime to take away whatever content.
The law enforcement agencies of Republic of Republic of India are saltation to exercise something effective. Furthermore, Telegram provides end-to-end encryption characteristic which makes it nigh impossible for government to observe the culprit behind spreading the inappropriate content.
Cyber constabulary of Kerala had busted a paedophile grouping which was promoting kid pornography, the petitioner said.
For your knowledge, Telegram was banned inwards Republic of Indonesia in addition to Russian Federation inwards 2017 in addition to 2018 respectively. Even, the Russian government ordered Telegram to mitt over the encryption keys.
The High Court of Kerala on Fri sought the views of the Central Government on the plea to ban the Telegram app inwards India.
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