Should digital platform owners be held liable for user-generated content? | The Hindu parley podcast

Updated - September 06, 2024 11:15 am IST

(FILES) This picture taken on October 5, 2020 shows the logo of mobile messaging and call service Telegram on a tablet screen in Toulouse, southwestern France. France on August 28, 2024, charged Pavel Durov, the founder and chief of Telegram, with a litany of violations related to the messaging app and banned him from leaving the country while allowing the billionaire to walk free after four days under arrest. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)

(FILES) This picture taken on October 5, 2020 shows the logo of mobile messaging and call service Telegram on a tablet screen in Toulouse, southwestern France. France on August 28, 2024, charged Pavel Durov, the founder and chief of Telegram, with a litany of violations related to the messaging app and banned him from leaving the country while allowing the billionaire to walk free after four days under arrest. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP) | Photo Credit: LIONEL BONAVENTURE

Russia-born tech tycoon Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, was arrested in Paris on August 24. French authorities announced that Mr. Durov is under investigation for a litany of serious crimes, including enabling the distribution of child sexual abuse material on the app, facilitating drug trafficking, and refusing to cooperate with law enforcement.

Should digital platform owners be held liable for user-generated content? Here we discuss the question.

Guests: Pranesh Prakash, Co-founder and former policy director at the Centre for Internet and Society; Rohit Kumar, Founding partner of the Quantum Hub

Host: Aaratrika Bhaumik

Read the parley article here.

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