<p class="title">There is no proposal to control social media, the government said on Monday in Rajya Sabha when asked if it was planning to do so.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In a written reply, Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore said, "There is no proposal in the ministry to control social media.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"However, the ministry proposes to set up a social media hub to facilitate information flow regarding its policies and programmes through social media platforms i.e., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube etc."</p>.<p class="bodytext">His response came to a question on whether the government was planning to control social media, as it was posing a serious threat to the society.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"There is no proposal to invade an individual's right to privacy," Rathore said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The minister's reply in Rajya Sabha comes days after the Supreme Court asked the government whether its move to create a Social Media Hub was to tap people's WhatsApp messages, observing that it will be like creating a "surveillance state".</p>.<p class="bodytext">In May this year, the Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited (BECIL), a Public Sector Undertaking under the ministry, had floated a tender to supply a software for the project. </p>
<p class="title">There is no proposal to control social media, the government said on Monday in Rajya Sabha when asked if it was planning to do so.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In a written reply, Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore said, "There is no proposal in the ministry to control social media.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"However, the ministry proposes to set up a social media hub to facilitate information flow regarding its policies and programmes through social media platforms i.e., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube etc."</p>.<p class="bodytext">His response came to a question on whether the government was planning to control social media, as it was posing a serious threat to the society.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"There is no proposal to invade an individual's right to privacy," Rathore said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The minister's reply in Rajya Sabha comes days after the Supreme Court asked the government whether its move to create a Social Media Hub was to tap people's WhatsApp messages, observing that it will be like creating a "surveillance state".</p>.<p class="bodytext">In May this year, the Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited (BECIL), a Public Sector Undertaking under the ministry, had floated a tender to supply a software for the project. </p>