Security News > 2023 > January > India floats plan to make big tech pay for news, walks back government censorship

In remarks made to Indian outlet The Economic Times, minister of state for electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the government's plan was to "Crack down on enemies of India, state actors, those with vested interests, child sexual abuse, and religious incitement" - but not on general news or comment.

Over the weekend, the minister also raised the topic of having Big Tech pay to link to news stories published by India's media.

"We plan to foster Seoul as the center of traditional asset trading and Busan as the center of digital asset trading, just as New York is the center of stock and bond and Chicago is the center of commodity and futures trading," said the announcement on the city's website.

The city said that in the decentralized fair exchange system, functions such as deposit settlement, listing evaluation and market monitoring will be separated across different institutions, in the same way as the existing stock trading system.

According to Radware, the crypto mining malware can both significantly impact system performance and expose systems to other forms of attack.

Our regional coverage from last week included news of a ban on Chinese video streaming app TikTok on university campuses around the United States under the directive of state governors, such as Texas's Greg Abbott.

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