Tuesday, January 3, 2012

India Forcing Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook, censor Content

Government of India has asked Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook to remove content disparaging and slandering politicians. Defamatory and disparaging content that should be automatically erased before online to the internet.

Kapil Sibal, Minister of Telecommunications of India, has summoned executives of four large technology companies. Sibal think that the internet is full of people who despise each other and posting slanderous and should be censored. Four companies have chosen is considered the greatest contribution.

In a meeting with Facebook executives, Sibal expressed clearly enough about the great Indian community that makes up Page contains libel against the Congress Party Sonia Gandhi.

However, the four company executives told Sibal and his cabinet that such a request can not be executed against user generated content originating from India. Too much content that comes from India, and companies are not responsible for defamation or disparaging words of politicians.

The only way to censor the internet is making a legal policy in their respective countries. In the rule of law, India can make a specific policy, because the technology company can not decide whether someone is an online posting slander or intend to belittle.

According to the analyst's Economic Times, something bad about a politician with no evidence on the internet, can be prosecuted as libel. However, if it had to summon executives of technology companies to censor the content in India, it is considered excessive. Polistisi in India seemed to want to be treated as gods and they expect technology companies that can help them do this.

Sibal continue contacting the four technology companies to implement a screening system, in which the administration staff can find objects that are not fun to be erased before being posted.

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