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Chennai: All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi opposed the draft of the rules to regulate content on Internet intermediaries and streaming platforms. In a series of tweets Owaisi expressed his dissent against the draft Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021. No one except sender and recipient of a message knows about its content now government rules wants to force platforms to trace the originator of forwarded messages” Owaisi tweeted. Originators also have no control over who forwards the content or how many times it is forwarded” another tweet read. These rules must be opposed” Owaisi tweeted..