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Facebook, Google censor content in India after court warnings
Published: 06 February, 2012, 23:28
Reuters / Krishnendu Halder
TAGS: Law, Internet, India, Social networks
Internet giants Google and Facebook have removed some content an Indian court found offensive to local political and religious leaders. The court warned the companies that their services could be shut down over the case.
A New Delhi court Monday gave Facebook, Google, YouTube, Blogspot and the other sites two weeks to present further plans for policing their networks.
The officials say it is not a question of censorship, but of the necessity to operate within the laws of the country.
Google India did not say which sites were removed, but said it would go after anything that violated local law or its own standards.
"(Our) review team has looked at the content, and disabled this content from the local domains of (Google) search, YouTube and Blogger," Google spokeswoman Paroma Roy Chowdhury said.
In January, the Indian government approved the prosecution of 21 web companies, including Google and Facebook, for publishing offensive content, and demanded the companies moderate what is published on their sites.
Back then, the companies said it was not possible to control everything their users upload to the Web.
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PheonixPhire wrote in#2
Is there a search engine as good or better than google that is not surrounded in privacy issues, censorship issues, information-sharing to manipulative corporations, or other controversies?
I have previously replied to this but my comment was removed apparently. RT, care to tell us why?
Surprising cailoboratlon indeed given that Microsoft is running scared will google OS be coming out soon.I know from personal contacts here in Berkeley that the google lab which talked the talk of open IP, and open cailoboratlon with the university, students and faculty is struggling to deliver preferring to keep ownership of the any potential money spinners rather than letting it be published unacceptable for many of the geeks of this famously hyper-left pocket of the states. Until they show them the pay offer?While we're on google their brand is rather ingenious an increasingly massive corporation that is expanding at an unprecidented rate with ambitions to deliver (and control?) the worlds information with a logo that looks like its been thrown together in 10 minutes in Word Times 64pt and some dabbling with primaries in the colour picker dressed up with clip art for seasonal variation, world cheese day, etc. It's more church notice board than billboard, I'd love to know if this is an intentional stratagy or a happy coincidence. Or, perhaps the perfect ploy of a power greedy robot mastermind intent on hiding plans for world domination behind a benign exterior