Future of Social Media in India
Butterfly Effect {buht•er•flahy•ih•fekt} – In chaos theory, it is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a ‘ deterministic nonlinear system ’ can result in large difference in a later state. Or simply, one small incident can layout a much larger impact in the surroundings like the domino effect. “ He who controls the narrative, controls the people! ” might sound spooky; but in today’s scenario, it holds its ground pretty much firmly. Recently, the Government of India (GoI) seized the legal shield of microblogging social media giant – “ Twitter ” on the grounds of “ non-compliance to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines & Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 {IT (I&GDMEC) R 2021} or simply, New IT Rules ”. This has been done by the ‘ Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology ’ (MoE&IT), led by ‘ Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad ’, who also appears to be the Cabinet Minister of ‘ Ministry of Law &a