{"id":926063,"date":"2025-04-28T16:59:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=926063"},"modified":"2025-04-28T21:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:43:23","slug":"sc-issues-notice-to-centre-netflix-others-on-plea-to-ban-sexually-explicit-content-on-ott-social-media-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/28\/sc-issues-notice-to-centre-netflix-others-on-plea-to-ban-sexually-explicit-content-on-ott-social-media-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"SC issues notice to Centre, Netflix &#038; others on plea to ban sexually explicit content on OTT, social media platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the Centre and others on a plea seeking a direction to take appropriate steps to prohibit streaming of sexually explicit content on OTT and social media platforms. <\/p>\n<p>A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Augustine George Masih said the petition raises an important concern and the issue was within the domain of the executive or the legislature. &#8220;As it is, there are allegations that we are encroaching upon the legislature and executive power,&#8221; Justice Gavai said.<\/p>\n<p>The bench told Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, that the government should do something about the issue raised in the plea. <\/p>\n<p>Mehta said some regulations in this regard were in existence while some more were in contemplation.<\/p>\n<p>Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain appeared for the petitioners. <\/p>\n<p>The top court was hearing a plea filed by five petitioners who have also sought guidelines constituting a National Content Control Authority to prohibit sexually explicit content on OTT and social media platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the Centre and others on a plea seeking a direction to take appropriate steps to prohibit streaming of sexually explicit content on OTT and social media platforms. A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Augustine George Masih said the petition raises an important concern and the issue was within the domain of the executive or the legislature. &#8220;As it is, there are allegations that we are encroaching upon the legislature and executive power,&#8221; Justice Gavai said. The bench told Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, that the government should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926063","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}