So, the battle which was ongoing between the government of India and social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter has come to an end with a local court ordered Google, Facebook and up to twenty other Internet firms to remove “unacceptable” images from their sites.
This is what was the exact statement of civil judge Mukesh Kumar:
Contents which are uploaded by some miscreants through these social media sites are highly unacceptable and are inflammatory and derogatory which cannot be accepted by any religion.
This is being seen as the outcome of the recent verdict from Telecom Minister of India Kapil Sibbal which was strongly critisized by Indian users on Social networks. Sibal instead tried to focus upon building a new system/framework which don’t actually have the exact power to remedy the entire situation, because they cannot force these Internet companies to reveal the user-identity of those who post such content nor they can be forced to remove it anyhow. With this piece of thought in mind, it will be too interesting to see as to how these companies respond to the court-orders.
In countries like Thailand, where any kind of content defaming against the royal family is considered as a crime, Google has removed videos from their video website (YouTube) but these things are less clear cut in our country as the online-content is not clearly in breach of the country’s Cyber-laws.
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