The Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that budgetary allocations had been made to set up a specialised central institutional mechanism to block and curb sharing of sexual offence videos on social networking platforms to check cybercrimes.
A Bench of Justices M.B. Lokur and U.U. Lalit asked the government to specify the structure and functions of the agency or the institution sought to be created and whether it would be under the aegis of the CBI or the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh submitted that the mechanism would be equipped to block offensive videos from being uploaded and prevent the circulation of such material on social networking platforms.
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Internet majors like Google India, Microsoft India, Yahoo India and Facebook, who were issued notices by the apex court, said it was not possible for them to auto-block content.