NCW questions WCD's anti-trolling move, asks how can you police the net

July 06, 2016 18:34

A day after the Women and Child Ministry stepped in to protect women from online trolls and asked National Commission for Women to monitor such cases, NCW Chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam raised strong objections and asked how could one police the net.

"You can't police the net. It is an open space, it is like a galaxy almost. There are billions of twitter accounts and no organisation can keep an eye on twitter. It is not physically possible for anybody to say we are following everybody's twitter...

"The problem with cyber crime is also that it is a very specialised crime. It can be dealt with by experts. Only the police can actually take action on this", Kumaramangalam said.

However, the day after Maneka Gandhi announced that victims of online abuse and troll could file a complaint by sending her an e-mail at gandhim@nic.in, her inbox was swamped with several grievances.

The ministry introduced #IamTrolledHelp so women could raise an alarm on Twitter apart from e-mailing complaints. The hashtag was one of the top twitter trends through most of the day.

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