New Delhi: The government on Thursday announced new rules to control social media, OTT platforms, and digital news media, as it mandated firms to appoint complaint officer, reveal the first begetter of the naughty information and remove, within 24 hours, content portraying nudity or morphed pictures of women.Concerns have actually been raised about rampant abuse of social media platforms and spread of phony news and the government is bringing in a soft touch policy, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad stated while announcing the brand-new guidelines.

As per the brand-new guidelines, social networks intermediaries have to designate grievance officer, who shall register complaints in 24 hr.

The complaint redressal official need to be resident in India, and month-to-month compliance reports will need to be filed by social networks platforms.

Social network platforms on being asked either by court or govt authority will be required to divulge first originator of naughty tweet or message.

This must remain in relation to sovereignty of India, security of state, relations with foreign states, rape etc, stated Union Minister RS Prasad.

Regarding OTT platforms and digital news media, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar stated that the government has actually chosen to have a 3-stair system for OTT platforms.

OTT and digital news media will have to divulge their information.

We are not mandating registration, we are inquiring, he said.For OTT, there will be self-classification of content-- 13+, 16+ and A categories.

There needs to be a system of parental lock and ensuring compliance that kids don't see that, stated the minister.