{"id":1001680,"date":"2026-04-08T11:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001680"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:32:06","slug":"meity-meets-platforms-advocacy-groups-on-draft-it-rules-tweaks-krishnan-says-open-to-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/08\/meity-meets-platforms-advocacy-groups-on-draft-it-rules-tweaks-krishnan-says-open-to-suggestions\/","title":{"rendered":"Meity meets platforms, advocacy groups on draft IT rules tweaks; Krishnan says open to suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Apr 7 (PTI) Amid a public outcry over draft IT rules amendment that, among other changes, propose to bring independent news creators on the Centre&#8217;s radar and mandate compliance with advisories, MeitY on Tuesday met social media platforms and civil society groups on their concerns, with IT Secretary S Krishnan later asserting the ministry is &#8220;open&#8221; to suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>Krishnan indicated that the government may extend the April 14 deadline for receiving feedback on proposed IT rules amendments in response to industry&#8217;s demand for more time, but argued that the changes do not widen powers and many, in fact, are &#8220;clarificatory&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Apr 7 (PTI) Amid a public outcry over draft IT rules amendment that, among other changes, propose to bring independent news creators on the Centre&#8217;s radar and mandate compliance with advisories, MeitY on Tuesday met social media platforms and civil society groups on their concerns, with IT Secretary S Krishnan later asserting the ministry is &#8220;open&#8221; to suggestions. Krishnan indicated that the government may extend the April 14 deadline for receiving feedback on proposed IT rules amendments in response to industry&#8217;s demand for more time, but argued that the changes do not widen powers and many, in fact, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}