The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a PIL seeking a direction to the Centre to set up an autonomous body to monitor and filter content and regulate videos on over-the-top (OTT) and other platforms in India, saying these are policy matters. <\/p>\n
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said that such issue falls under the policy making domain of the executive and requires wide consultations with various stake-holders. <\/p>\n
“This is the problem of PILs. They are all on policy (matters) now and we miss out genuine PILs,” the CJI said. <\/p>\n
Lawyer Shashank Shekhar Jha, who had filed the PIL, said he be permitted to withdraw and approach the union ministry concerned with the grievances. <\/p>\n
“No. Dismissed,” the CJI said. <\/p>\n
The PIL also referred to the Netflix series “IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack” to highlight the need for such a regulatory mechanism as the OTT platform claimed it was based on real-life incidents. <\/p>\n
It said there exists a statutory film certification body — Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) — tasked with regulating public exhibition of films under the Cinematograph Act. <\/p>\n
The cinematograph law outlines a strict certification process for commercial films shown in public venues, it said. <\/p>\n
“However, no such body is available to monitor\/regulate the OTT contents and they are only bound by the self-regulations which are not compiled properly and the controversial contents are shown to the public at large without any checks and balances,” the PIL said. <\/p>\n
Over 40 OTT and video streaming platforms are providing \u201cpaid, ad-inclusive, and free content\u201d to citizens and abuse the right to expression granted in Article 19, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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