Liable vs. Accountable: How Criminal Use of Online Platforms
and Social Media poses Challenges to Intermediary Protection in
India
Abstract
The term "Cybercrime" feels particularly outdated
nowadays. It is used to signify (comparatively) humdrum acts like
online obscenity, identity theft, or financial malfeasance. Now,
there is an argument that the Internet enables (or even abets)
extreme cases of criminality, such as rioting, hate speech,
terrorist recruitment, targeted fake news, illegal lobbying, and
unprecedented thefts of personal data. A number of these cases
involve online platforms and intermediaries (being used as primary
tools for commission of crime), the new gatekeepers of the
Internet.
