In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Chandrasekhar stated that the ministry of electronics and knowledge expertise had handed orders to dam public entry to those hyperlinks beneath Section 69A of the IT Act.
Section 69 A of the IT Act offers the federal government emergency powers to hunt speedy blocking of public entry to hyperlinks current on the web.
In whole, web intermediaries and authorities businesses blocked a complete of 29,154 uniform useful resource locators (URLs) over the previous 5 years.
Earlier on Tuesday, Chandrasekhar had, in a written reply to the Lok Sabha, in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, the Union IT ministry handed orders to dam public entry to 2799, 3635, 9849, 6096 and 6775 URLs respectively.
The committee constituted to listen to appeals towards the blocking of such URLs met 18, 40, 70, 39 and 53 occasions, respectively, over the past 5 years, Chandrasekhar had then stated.
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Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com