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  Over the past decade, social media has taken a leading position in determining the terms of public debate, behavioral patterns, and communication. Companies like Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram, and WhatsApp have been able to provide users with powerful tools while introducing several issues about privacy, accountability, and freedom of speech. With such complexities, India has enacted laws and regulations to govern the use of social media, balancing the rights of users with the responsibilities of the platforms. The regulatory framework in India concerning social media is basically defined by the Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act).The Information Technology  Act  as a primary legislation dealing with cybercrimes, electronic communication, and digital content in India. The section 66A of IT Act  criminalized "offensive" messages sent through communication services, but the Supreme Court struck it down in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India (2015) as it was hel...

  In January 2020, for most of the Indians COVID-19 was a disease that was creating news outside the country. At that time no one could have predicted that a virus was going to change our lives forever. In the month of March (2020)  after the confirmation of few COVID cases in big cities like Delhi and Mumbai, our government suddenly called for complete lockdown in the country. Complete lockdown meant that everyone was locked inside their houses. So now everything had to be done from houses itself. There were various questions that were to be answered. People had no idea about how to operate for their jobs and businesses, it was the time, when   we  saw the sudden and smooth shift towards the online mode of communication and functioning. Like any other domain of society, education system also had to shift to online methods. Initially this change posed a lot of problems for the students as well as for ...