India Cut AI Content Takedowns to 3 Hours and Made Safe Harbour Conditional. Nobody Has Audited What That Means.
Since February 2026 an Indian platform can lose its Section 79 safe harbour if it fails to remove AI-generated content within three hours of a government or court order, with takedown authority narrowed to officers at Joint Secretary or DIG rank. The draft rules compress general grievances from 72 hours to 36. Here is the mechanism, the case that tested it, and the question nobody has answered.




