Varanasi District Magistrate Yogeshwar Ram Mishra and Senior Superintendent of Police Nitin Tiwari have issued a joint order declaring that the administrators of social media groups can be held responsible for messages sent by any of their members. This includes WhatsAppand Facebook, both of which are used to circulate everything from jokes to political messages. According to the order, WhatsApp and Facebook group administrators need to proactively refute and remove posts that are false, defamatory, or otherwise objectionable. Members who post anything that might be classified as such must also be removed and reported to the police. Legal action can be taken against group administrators who fail to do so.
Administrators are further directed to add people to WhatsApp or other social media groups only if they already know them. FIRs can be filed against administrators under the IT Act if they fails to perform these duties, the order adds. The order says that freedom of speech must be balanced with responsibility.
While the news might be welcome to those plagued by mass WhatsApp forwards and spam, it remains to be seen how this order can be implemented, or what impact it will have in practical terms.
Latest 4G speed test results show Jio still ahead of competitors
According to data collected by the TRAI MySpeed app in the month of March, Reliance Jio is once again the fastest 4G mobile service provider in India, beating Vodafone, Idea, and Airtel. The average 4G download speed that Jio users were able to achieve was 16.48Mbps, while Idea Cellular users reported 12.029Mbps on average and Airtel users got 10.439Mbps. Vodafone users seem to be the worst off, with an average of just 7.933Mbps. However, all three posted superior upload speeds, with Idea in the top spot at 6.536Mbps followed by Vodafone at 5.429Mbps, Airtel at 4.455Mbps, and finally Jio at 3.581Mbps.
According to data collected by the TRAI MySpeed app in the month of March, Reliance Jio is once again the fastest 4G mobile service provider in India, beating Vodafone, Idea, and Airtel. The average 4G download speed that Jio users were able to achieve was 16.48Mbps, while Idea Cellular users reported 12.029Mbps on average and Airtel users got 10.439Mbps. Vodafone users seem to be the worst off, with an average of just 7.933Mbps. However, all three posted superior upload speeds, with Idea in the top spot at 6.536Mbps followed by Vodafone at 5.429Mbps, Airtel at 4.455Mbps, and finally Jio at 3.581Mbps.
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