Social media companies to shut fake a/cs within 24 hours of complaint

社交媒体公司需在收到投诉24小时内关闭假冒账户

NEW DELHI: In a major decision that is likely to end the menace of impersonation on social media in India, the government has mandated that top companies such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube have to remove accounts with fake profile pictures of known personalities and businesses, and even the general subscriber, within 24 hours of being notified of the same by the user or someone on his/her behalf.

新德里：印度政府要求Twitter、Facebook、Instagram和YouTube等公司阿在收到用户或其代表的投诉后24小时内，删除使用知名人物和企业甚至普通用户的假头像的账户，这一重大决定或能结束印度社交媒体上的假冒现象。

The government has said this mandate comes in as part of the new IT rules and thus social media giants will need to act immediately after receiving a complaint to this effect.

政府表示，这一规定是新IT规定的一部分，因此社交媒体巨头在收到相关投诉后需要立即采取行动。

"For example, if a known film actor, or a cricketer, or a politician, or any other user, objects to another person using his or her image/picture to gain followers or to make their messaging more visible, or to carry out any illegal act, then they are within their right to ask the companies to take down the account. Provisions to this effect have been included in the new IT Rules for social media companies, and they have to take remedial action within a day after being notified by a user," official sources told TOI.

官方消息人士对印度时报表示：“例如，如果一个知名电影演员，或板球运动员，或政客，或任何其他用户，反对其他人使用他或她的照片来获得关注，或使他们的消息更显眼，或进行任何非法活动，他们有权要求这些公司删除该账户。针对社交媒体公司的新IT规定已经包含了这方面的规定，它们必须在接到用户通知后的一天内采取补救措施。”

Impersonators are a major sore point for popular personalities, influencers, activists and even corporates/businesses as they mimic a legitimate account for various reasons. These may range from pure-play parody accounts, to those created for doing mischief or a crime, or to carry out a financial fraud. Some such accounts are also created by fans of popular personalities, and some are also run through bots. Apart from using an image of a popular personality as their profile picture, some fake account holders may also add their own image to a celebrity/politician’s picture by morphing the original content in order to claim proxmity, and get favours.

对于受欢迎的人物、有影响力的人、活动人士，甚至公司/企业来说，这些假冒账户的人让他们非常头疼，他们出于各种原因假冒合法账户。这些账户可能是纯粹的模仿，也可能是为了恶作剧、犯罪或进行金融欺诈而创建的。有些此类账户也是由流行人物的粉丝创建的，有些也是通过机器人运行的。除了使用流行人物的头像，一些假冒账户持有人还可能通过剪辑原始内容将自己的头像和名人或政客的头像P在一起，以彰显自己与他们关系密切，并获得好处。

以下是印度时报读者的评论：译者：Jessica.Wu

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Great decision by Indian Government.

Frauds and Scammers are worst in India and much needed to have open society but still trust worthy and responsible society.

印度政府的伟大决定。

诈骗和骗子在印度是最猖獗的，印度非常需要一个开放的社会，值得信任和负责任的社会。

drsbafna S. Bafna

these type of accounts makers should be traced penalized if needed and law need to be there for punishment...

如有必要，这类账户的创建者应该依法受到惩罚

Shiva Holla

enough of "free" speech..ppl need to own up responsibility for their blabbering

言论已经够自由了，印度人需要为自己的胡言乱语承担责任

rkfromnyc

Lov the way Modi is clip the wings of Twit and other social media platforms. They hav enjoyed ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY untile now. Good job Modiji !!!!

喜欢莫迪限制Twitter和其他社交媒体平台的做法。到目前为止，他们不承担任何责任。干得好，莫迪!!!!

K Mohan

This is good move to keep vulgar and filthy posts on social media either too not having control

做得好，可以遏制社交媒体上粗俗、肮脏的帖子

dream77boy

all this is to quash any dissent of Modi. shame on this govt

这么做都是为了平息对莫迪的异议。这届印度政府真可耻

Faiyaz Ansari

All fake ac are bjp itcell

所有假账户都是人民党的水军

Asok Datta

The gestapos are back in India

盖世太保到了印度

J Shetty

it's shame Twitter, Facebook making money using fake accounts

Twitter和Facebook用虚假账户赚钱，真是可耻

R Venkatesh Govind

Only BJP fake accounts should be treated as genuine. All other accounts must be blocked

只有印度人民党的假账户才被视为真实账户，其他账户必须被屏蔽

Niranjan Solanki

Twitter is the worst where Pappu spews his venom against Modi everyday. He must be committed to an asylum.

推特是最糟糕的，拉胡尔每天都在推特上吐槽莫迪，必须把他送进精神病院。

Varadarajan Sitaraman

50% postings will vanish

一半的帖子将消失

Rohit Kumar

Many of these accounts are run by PR agencies to propagate their agenda stories...

这些账户中有很多是由公关公司运营的，目的是宣传他们的议程……

NV Santoshkumar

Good Decision, we don't need any fake accounts, Sure this will lead to transparency and accountability in social media platform

好决定，我们不需要虚假账户，这将使社交媒体平台更加透明，并引入问责制

Fekuendra Dramadas Modi

Feku account will be closed as he always fakes

莫迪的账户将被关闭，因为他总是作假

Mohandas MT

A right move in the right direction.

朝着正确的方向迈出了正确的一步。

debashis mallick

That means BJP IT Cell will disappear in 24 hrs !

这意味着人民党水军部门将在24小时内消失!

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Social media is doing more harm than good.

社交媒体弊大于利。