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Vaishnaw: SGI Regulations 'Right Direction', Constitutional Mandate

Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw

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Storyboard•20-02-2026, 19:05

Vaishnaw: SGI Regulations 'Right Direction', Constitutional Mandate

•Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw states new SGI regulations are widely accepted and align with global thinking.
•Amendments to IT Rules formally bring AI-generated content under legal ambit, focusing on transparency and accountability.
•New rules mandate a three-hour takedown for unlawful content and two hours for non-consensual intimate imagery.
•Meta and other stakeholders raise operational concerns over compressed timelines, citing challenges in implementation at scale.
•Vaishnaw emphasizes SGI labelling ensures users know if content is real or synthetic, calling online illegality a constitutional mandate.

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