The order came weeks after the I&B Ministry refused to agree to the self-regulation code floated by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). Speaking to HuffPost India, Saurabh Singh, deputy director of the Press Information Bureau, the media unit of the I&B Ministry, said that the order came from the Cabinet Secretary and not from I&B itself. “Every other form of media is regulated but the online content isn’t. A report in the Economic Times suggests that the I&B Ministry had written to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) seeking transfer of power to regulate content online. Fearing that the I&B Ministry would impose censorship over online content—a space that has remained largely free from control—several filmmakers expressed their anxieties over government overreach.

Source: Huffington Post November 11, 2020 13:30 UTC