New Delhi: The Google India's name was on Friday taken out from the suit for trial of various social networking websites for allegedly hosting offending contents, after it was pointed out to a Delhi court that it is merely a software developing firm. Administrative Civil Judge Praveen Singh dropped the case against Google India agreeing with its plea that it does not operate any social networking website. The court also...
11:50 AM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will hear final arguments in the objectionable online content case. Several social networking websites, including Google and Facebook, had approached the court requesting it to quash the trial court's order, which summoned them earlier. The trial court had warned the websites that the websites could face a ban if they didn't remove objectionable content. Google and Facebook, along with 16 other websites are facing...
09:00 AM, Feb 02, 2012
New Delhi: Facebook and Google, which are facing a lawsuit in India for allegedly hosting offensive content, are fighting back a case that has fired up a debate over Internet censorship in democratic India. And is there a balance that can be struck between the freedom of speech and controlling objectionable content. Petitioner Vinay Rai who filed a criminal complaint in Delhi's Patiala court against twenty networking sites, including Facebook,...
10:11 PM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will hear Google India and social networking site Facebook's plea on Tuesday as both websites are challenging the decision to prosecute them for posting objectionable content. Google and Facebook which are among 18 websites facing criminal proceedings are not giving up without a fight. On Monday, Google told the Delhi High Court that blocking it was not an option in a democracy. It pointed...
06:17 AM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: Google India, which along with 20 websites is facing criminal case for allegedly hosting objectionable materials, on Monday told the Delhi High Court that blocking them was not an option as a democratic India does not have a "totalitarian" regime like China. "The issue relates to a constitutional issue of freedom of speech and expression and suppressing it was not possible as the right to freedom of speech...
07:51 PM, Jan 16, 2012
New Delhi: Information Technology and Communication Minister Kapil Sibal, speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, clarified that the government did not want to pre-screen any of the content on various Internet platforms. He said that the government had asked Internet platforms to form a set of guidelines according to their standards to protect the sentiments of people in the country. Sibal said that he only asked them to remove...
08:55 AM, Dec 10, 2011
New Delhi: Union Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday reiterated that the move to monitor the Internet has been taken to keep out content that are vulgar, demeaning and insulting. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, Sibal argued that such content could lead to riots and so were unacceptable. "The content on Internet was vulgar, demeaning and insulting. It could lead to riots. The contents hurt the religious sentiments....
01:11 PM, Dec 09, 2011
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