The I&B Ministry's plan to set up a hub to monitor activity on social media has started a debate - should one's freedom of expression and right to privacy be considered unlimited until it does not infringe on similar rights that the constitution offers to other stakeholders in a democratic set-up? Another question that concerned citizens and the SC have been asking is if the government's plan of tapping the social media message would create a "surveillance state".

A three-member SC bench has asked the government to respond to its concern, while hearing a case filed by a Trinamool Congress legislator, Mahua Moitra. Social media is abuzz... Other than infringement of privacy, users fear inspector raaj in the name of fake news/information from the government when things in cyber space are not going the way the ruling dispensation wants.