“Newsrooms will shut down, if we have to ask for permission...it’s then a complete regime of pre-censorship.” That’s what India’s biggest news publishers told the Supreme Court today, as they took on Modi’s government over its privacy law. Digital News Publishers Association lawyer, Madhavi Goradia Divan, argued the law is “changing the whole concept of what is news.” She told the judges that earlier versions of the law exempted journalists, but the final one did not. The publishers, whose group includes Ambani’s Network18, Adani’s NDTV, the Indian Express and Times Internet, say the law would force reporters to seek consent from the very people they investigate; people named in stories demand erasure, forcing publishers to unpublish reports; Let New Delhi demand information from newsrooms without court approval, putting sources at risk The court will hear the case next month. Today's story: