The Central government on Tuesday, January 6, extended the deadline it gave to Elon Musk’s X Corporation to file a detailed action take report (ATR) against “vulgar and unlawful” content, users and accounts. With the extension in the deadline, Hindustan Times,
The extension comes three days after the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) wrote to
In a letter to the Chief Compliance Officer,
It added that hosting, displaying, uploading, publication, transmission, storage, sharing of vulgar and unlawful content “attracts serious penal consequences under multiple statutes.” Also Read | Why Elon Musk’s Grok is under investigation in India, Europe and Malaysia: what are the cases?
“Failure to observe such due diligence obligations shall result in the loss of the exemption from liability under section 79 of the IT Act, and you shall also be liable for consequential action as provided under any law including the IT Act and BNS,” the letter read.
It continued: “It has especially been observed that the service namely “Grok AI” developed by you and integrated and made available on the
What was
In its letter, the Central government asked
It also asked BNSS.”
On Sunday, January 4, Global Government Affairs account of
“Anyone using Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content,” Musk had said.
