# Information Technology intermediary rules are notified Date: 2021 ## The fact On 25 February 2021 the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, imposing traceability, grievance, and takedown duties on significant social-media intermediaries. ## Context MeitY implements. Platforms challenged parts in court. [Modi](/people/narendra-modi) is the prime minister of the government that notified. He did not sit as every grievance officer. Later 2023 amendments are neighbouring later instruments. Later 2023 amendments and court stays are neighbouring later instruments. The Prime Minister of India is head of the Union Council of Ministers. Parliament writes statutes; the President assents; states and Union ministries implement; the Supreme Court can strike a scheme down. A prime minister can announce demonetisation, drive a bill, and take an oath. He does not write a UNFCCC depositary record, an ISRO telemetry file, or a Supreme Court judgment by himself. ## Evidence and sources Press Information Bureau of India carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is digital rights: a completed traceability-and-takedown code is a dated speech-and-platform control instrument. ## What is established and what is not Established: a 25 February 2021 notification of IT intermediary and digital-media rules. Not established: a unique later takedown census from notification day, or that every later court stay unwrote the gazette. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. MeitY administers. Platforms implement or challenge.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Information Technology intermediary rules are notified, not a later speech about Information Technology intermediary rules are notified. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Information Technology intermediary rules are notified on 2021-02-25 is not a licence to treat every later Press Information Bureau of India communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Information Technology intermediary rules are notified into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to His government notified the rules. MeitY administers. Platforms implement or challenge. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. The Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, the President, the Reserve Bank, state governments, the Election Commission, and foreign counterparties share specific files. Allegation is not a completed judgment. A Supreme Court striking-down is not a criminal conviction. A scheme notification is not a unique rupee coefficient. A UN pledge is not a delivered emissions path. ## People - Narendra Modi: https://factrail.ai/people/narendra-modi ## Drivers - Digital-Rights and Platform-Power Regulation: https://factrail.ai/drivers/tech-digital-rights-regulation - Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-tech-idUSKBN2AP0YV - https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1700742 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/in-it-intermediary-rules-2021