Wednesday 6 June 2012

Google , Facebook and Other Internet Giants Pull Content after Court Hearing


Internet Giants Google , Facebook , Yahoo , Microsoft , Ask , Twitter and Many Other Today  had to Defer There Rigid behavior  With the Indian Government After  Supreme Court  Made Some Strong Points  in Front of Them .
After Just Two Days Facebook Announced That "INDIA IS THE SECOND  LARGEST  SOCIAL NETWORKING MARKET " ,  Supreme Court Issued a warning to Facebook to Pull off all the Religiously
Objectionable Content From The Social Networking Site   .
Google Too was Asked to Pull off all That Content From  Search Indexes , Bloggers , Images etc.
Supreme Court Signaled That India May Go for a China Like Cyber Filter Zone if  these Internet Giants Doesn't Censor all  The  Objectionable Content on Web .
Recently Many  Religious Groups Complained About Some objectionable Content on Social Networking Sites Like Facebook , Google Etc.. And Demanded A Complete Shut Down for All These Sites.
Previously Supreme Court Issued a Summon to Google but they Took the Matter not much Seriously and  issued a Statement That They Cannot  Censor all the Content Available over internet .
"(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.

At the heart of the dispute is a law that India passed last year making companies responsible for user content posted on their websites, and giving them 36 hours to take down content if there is a complaint.

Fewer than one in 10 of India's 1.2 billion population has access to the Internet, but that still makes it the third-biggest Internet market after China and the United States. The number of Internet users in India is expected to almost triple to 300 million over the next three years.

Despite the new rules to block offensive content, India's Internet access is still largely uncensored, in contrast to the tight controls in neighbouring China. But like many other governments around the world, India has become increasingly nervous about the power of social media.

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