New Delhi, Feb. 20 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey, who heads the parliamentary standing committee on communications and information technology, on Wednesday sought a note from the ministry on the efficacy of existing laws to deal with obscene content, and the need to amend the existing IT Act, 2000.
The development comes a day after the Supreme Court suggested that it would like the government to consider an anti-obscenity law for YouTube channels and social media.
According to a senior functionary of the panel, it is set to recommend to the government a new law that would be "more effective to protect women, children and common people" from obscene content that is freely available on the net.
Dubey's letter on "Propo...