News Summary

• MediaNama held a discussion on April 23, 2026, on the impact and implications of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s (MeitY) proposed amendments to the IT Rules, 2021.
• The opening session described coordinated and escalating patterns of suppression experienced by victims of censorship in India.
• The March 2026 amendments do not, in any meaningful sense, ‘clarify’ existing rules, as MeitY claimed.
• They are the newest layer in a stack that already runs deep.