The past decade has witnessed rapid growth of e-commerce and
social media platforms and everything in between, all connected to
the ubiquitous world of the internet. In India, the approximate
figure representative of the collective increase in use and
dependency on internet, is 590 million. Due to such growth, the
nature of the duties and liabilities of intermediaries (including,
inter alia, access providers to social media platforms,
online market places) have undergone a sea change. Briefly put, an
intermediary is an entity that enables one to access
information/services over the internet i.e. the intermediary
ideally acts as a conduit and is not the owner of the information
sought to be accessed or the services required. As per Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and Development, internet intermediaries
can be defined as organizations (primarily, for-profit companies)
that "bring together or facilitate transactions between third
parties on the Internet. They give
