The trigger to bring the issue on high table is the reported misuse of social media during the Muzaffarnagar riots. It is learnt that the people from different communities used social networking sites to upload objectionable pictures of violence which may or may not be genuine.
The same issue was discussed in the Parliament in August last year when morphed pictures were used by miscreants in the form of MMS (multi-media messages) to fan communal tension by targeting people of northeast in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune.
Though the government had handled it by putting ban on bulk SMS and MMS for certain period, it found it very difficult to remove objectionable pictures and videos from different social networking sites. Most of these pictures were morphed and uploaded at different websites in Pakistan and some other countries.
It presented a unique problem before the government which had to entirely depend on companies which own the micro-blogging and social-networking sites whose servers are located in US. Since all these companies have a very strict norms concerning individual's privacy, it took many days for the government to block those objectionable contents which were used for fanning communal and ethnic tension in many parts of the countries following a series of violence in Assam last year.
The issue this time will be discussed during the National Integration Council (NIC) meeting on Monday. The meeting is called in the backdrop of the Muzaffarnagar riots that left 48 persons killed and over 45,000 people displaced during communal violence in western Uttar Pradesh.
The 148-member NIC, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, will also discuss issues concerning safety and security of women, confidence-building measures taken to tackle communal disturbances and taking help from all sections of society in removing communal tension.
The proposed Communal Violence Bill, opposed by some states as it envisages empowering the central government to send central forces unilaterally in case of communal disturbances, is also expected to be discussed in the meeting.
Union ministers, leaders of the opposition in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, chief ministers of all states and Union Territories are members of the NIC. Leaders of national and regional political parties, chairpersons of national commissions, eminent journalists, public figures and representatives of business and women's organisations are also part of the Council.
Set up in early 1960s by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the NIC held its first meeting in 1962. The last meeting of the Council was held on September 10, 2011.
It will be the first time when the leaders and policy makers discuss the issue of social media in the context of its misuse during communal violence.
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