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Google Bows Down Under Indian Government Pressure – Starts Censoring Data On The Internet

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Earlier last month we reported that the Indian high court was threatening to take legal prosecution against web giants like Facebook, Google and Microsoft, if they didn’t comply to censor data on the internet and implement court orders. These companies did not surrender and said that censoring huge piles of information that kept constantly growing was not possible to be monitored. And today in a sudden twist of the matter Google has complied to court orders.

 

Google Inc. removed content from its Indian domains that was deemed objectionable by a New Delhi district court after a civil lawsuit against the owner of the world’s largest search engine. The material was blocked from India search results, YouTube, Blogger and the social-networking site Orkut, said Gaurav Bhaskar, a spokesman for Google India.

 

India is stepping up scrutiny of Internet postings and mobile communications as it tries to eliminate provocative comments and curb discord between religious groups. The Hindu- majority South Asian country is home to more than 138 million Muslims, comprising about 13 percent of the world’s second- largest population.

 

“This step is in accordance with Google’s long-standing policy of responding to court orders,” the company said in an e-mailed statement today.

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INDIA talking to Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Yahoo to Censor Content

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Kapil Sibal, India’s telecommunications minister is meeting Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Facebook, according to the New York Times to help the country censor information from the internet to its users. 

The reason for the censor being imposed is that someone wrote a comment that was negative in a way, on Sonia Gandhi’s page. In April a law was also passed that made it mandatory for web companies to take down objectionable material of the site within 36 hours of publishing  if asked by the state.

The government is asking companies and social media sites like Facebook and Google to prescreen user content from India and to remove disparaging, inflammatory or defamatory content before it goes online.

With a combined user base of over 400 million users, these four companies provide search and social media experiences to users and it is also reported that The Indian government also plans to set up its own unit to monitor information posted on Web sites and social media sites.

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