{"id":997085,"date":"2026-03-09T09:59:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=997085"},"modified":"2026-03-09T10:10:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:40:40","slug":"the-tyranny-of-the-algorithm-and-digital-india-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/09\/the-tyranny-of-the-algorithm-and-digital-india-act\/","title":{"rendered":"The tyranny of the algorithm and digital India act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JS Mill who is regarded as the father of negative liberty and a staunch opponent to state interventionism, in 1859 warned that the \u201ctyranny of the majority\u201d was more dangerous than the \u201ctyranny of a magistrate\u201d. Today as India prepares the Digital India Act we face a new version of this threat: \u201cthe tyranny of the algorithm\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>JS Mill is a frequently quoted philosopher for his views on freedom of speech, expressions, thoughts and opinion. In this supposed \u201cage of information\u201d where most of the social media platforms are filled with misinformation or half truths, Mills\u2019 harm principle is highly relevant to justify state intervention in the digital sphere because \u201ccognitive harm\u201d is just as dangerous as physical harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JS Mill who is regarded as the father of negative liberty and a staunch opponent to state interventionism, in 1859 warned that the \u201ctyranny of the majority\u201d was more dangerous than the \u201ctyranny of a magistrate\u201d. Today as India prepares the Digital India Act we face a new version of this threat: \u201cthe tyranny of the algorithm\u201d. JS Mill is a frequently quoted philosopher for his views on freedom of speech, expressions, thoughts and opinion. In this supposed \u201cage of information\u201d where most of the social media platforms are filled with misinformation or half truths, Mills\u2019 harm principle is highly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997085","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}