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    India to ban 'offensive' Internet material

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    India to ban 'offensive' Internet material Empty India to ban 'offensive' Internet material

    Post  Carol Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:59 am

    India on Tuesday vowed to ban offensive material from the Internet after Facebook, Google and other major firms told the government they were unable to screen content before it was posted. Communications Minister Kapil Sibal said talks with the Internet giants had failed to come up with a solution following complaints that he had lodged three months ago over "unacceptable" images. "My aim is that insulting material never gets uploaded," Sibal told reporters in New Delhi. "We will evolve guidelines and mechanisms to deal with the issue. "They will have to give us the data, where these images are being uploaded and who is doing it."

    Sibal said the government supported free speech and was against censorship but that some material on the Internet was so offensive that no one would find it acceptable.
    He said he had shown some of the worst images to the Internet companies, who had said they could not control all distribution.

    "Three months back we saw that Google, Yahoo!, Facebook had images which could be an insult to Indians, especially religious-minded people," Sibal said. "I feel that this in principle was not correct but it is very clear that we will not allow such insults to happen. We are thinking and will take the next step," he said. "We will not allow our cultural ethos to be hurt." Congress spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the government was only acting "in respect of absolutely illegal, defamatory, pornographic or other similar kind of material".

    read more at link http://news.yahoo.com/india-asks-internet-giants-screen-user-content-073908727.html


    Personal Note: Thank you India and China for stopping offensive material that is being posted on the internet. Thubs Up Hadriel


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