The Supreme Court has constituted a committee to explore a technical solution to block videos of sexual offences on social networking sites. <br/><br/><br/>The committee comprises of representatives from the Union government and internet majors. The court gave the nominees of Google India, Microsoft India, Yahoo India, Facebook and other internet intermediaries 15 days to meet and come up with a solution. <br/><br/><br/>The apex court asked the representatives of all the stakeholders to participate in the meeting and inform it about the outcome on the 20th of next month, the next date of hearing.<br/><br/>The court was hearing a letter sent to former Chief Justice HL Dattu by a Hyderabad-based NGO along with two rape videos in a pen drive.<br/><br/>Earlier, officials from the cyber security, who function under the CBI, told the apex court that internet was a wild highway and blocking objectionable content at the source was a technical challenge for which clear guidelines needed to be issued to stop circulation of such material. <br/><br/><br/>They had told the court that 50 countries have set up hotlines to stop child abuse in their jurisdiction but India was yet to start such a service.<br/>
News On AIR | March 23, 2017 5:53 AM
SC forms committee to explore solution for blocking sex offence on social network