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Raising the issue through a Zero Hour mention, Sushil Kumar Modi said, 'The government must make Google, Facebook and YouTube pay print and news channels for the news content they are using freely.'
India last month announced the Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code, aimed at pushing firms such as Facebook to comply with content takedown orders. However, it also extends to news websites.
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As per the new rules, social media intermediaries have to appoint grievance officer, who shall register complaints in 24 hours.
In a letter written to Google India country manager Sanjay Gupta, INS president L Adimoolam demanded that Google pay for news generated by the newspapers which employ thousands of journalists on the ground, at considerable expense, for gathering and verifying information.
Facebook last week blocked all news content and several state government and emergency department accounts.
The move was swiftly criticised by news producers, politicians and human rights advocates, particularly as it became clear that official health pages, emergency safety warnings and welfare networks had all been scrubbed from the site along with news.
For two decades, global news outlets have complained internet companies are getting rich at their expense, selling advertising linked to their reports without sharing revenue.
Speaking in Parliament on Thursday, IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad called out Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and WhatsApp by name and said they were welcome to operate in India, but only if they play by India's rules.
In the wake of this, cross-platform encrypted messaging service, Signal has climbed to the top spot in the free apps category of the App Store in multiple countries, including India.