Google, Facebook ordered to delete anti-social contents
Monday, 9 January 2012
Fazle Rashid
NEW YORK, Jan 8: Two courts in the Indian capital New Delhi have ordered 21 internet companies including such high profile names like Google, Yahoo and Facebook to delete anti-religious and anti social contents from their sites by February 06, 2012.
Magistrate Sudesh Kumar acted upon a complaint, lodged by journalist Vinay Rai and magistrate Mukesh Kumar acted upon a complaint lodged by Islamic scholar, Mufti Aijaz Arshad.
Two complainants objected to some objectionable photographs and derogatory articles on Prophet Mohammad (SM), Jesus Christ and Hindu Gods and Goddesses.
Additional Civil Judge Mukesh Kumar has directed Facebook, Google and Youtube to delete objectionable religious contents from their websites. The magistrates in their ruling said the accused, in connivance with each other, are selling, exhibiting and circulating materials -- obscene and lascivious that tend to deprave and corrupt persons who read, and hear about, the same.
This news was divulged by Indian media here in New York, particularly by a magazine named Little India. The magazine is well know here for its investigating reports.
The government of India is nudging Google, Facebook and YouTube among others to remove the offensive and insulting contents from the websites. India's IT minister Kabil Sibil defended the thrust toward censorship, saying, "We are seeking their cooperation and if somebody is not willing to cooperate, it is the duty of the government to think about steps that it needs to take."
But Google said 70 per cent of government objections related to its criticism, the highest anywhere in the world. Incredibly, the world's two largest democracy -- the US and India -- demand information most on the users. The Google have complied with 93 per cent of US request and 70 per cent of Indian ones. Some of the websites' postings in India that have drawn the ire of the Indian government are cartoons on Prime Minister Manmohon Singh and the Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
NEW YORK, Jan 8: Two courts in the Indian capital New Delhi have ordered 21 internet companies including such high profile names like Google, Yahoo and Facebook to delete anti-religious and anti social contents from their sites by February 06, 2012.
Magistrate Sudesh Kumar acted upon a complaint, lodged by journalist Vinay Rai and magistrate Mukesh Kumar acted upon a complaint lodged by Islamic scholar, Mufti Aijaz Arshad.
Two complainants objected to some objectionable photographs and derogatory articles on Prophet Mohammad (SM), Jesus Christ and Hindu Gods and Goddesses.
Additional Civil Judge Mukesh Kumar has directed Facebook, Google and Youtube to delete objectionable religious contents from their websites. The magistrates in their ruling said the accused, in connivance with each other, are selling, exhibiting and circulating materials -- obscene and lascivious that tend to deprave and corrupt persons who read, and hear about, the same.
This news was divulged by Indian media here in New York, particularly by a magazine named Little India. The magazine is well know here for its investigating reports.
The government of India is nudging Google, Facebook and YouTube among others to remove the offensive and insulting contents from the websites. India's IT minister Kabil Sibil defended the thrust toward censorship, saying, "We are seeking their cooperation and if somebody is not willing to cooperate, it is the duty of the government to think about steps that it needs to take."
But Google said 70 per cent of government objections related to its criticism, the highest anywhere in the world. Incredibly, the world's two largest democracy -- the US and India -- demand information most on the users. The Google have complied with 93 per cent of US request and 70 per cent of Indian ones. Some of the websites' postings in India that have drawn the ire of the Indian government are cartoons on Prime Minister Manmohon Singh and the Congress President Sonia Gandhi.