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Facebook Won't Censor Posts for India
Facebook Won't Censor Posts for India - Technorati Technology
Author: Craig Blaha
Published: December 08, 2011 at 11:29 am
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Kapil Sibal, Indian Communications and Technology Minister, seeks censorshiip from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and TwitterThe Communications and Technology Minister for the largest democracy in the world - India - has submitted a plan to technology leaders from companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft to censor social networking content before it gets posted to the web.
Kapil Sibal, India's Communication and Technology Minister has asked social media leaders to censor material that was incendiary or blasphemous. Sibal has shown a number of examples of what he considers offensive to any "normal human being", including images of Hindu Gods and Mecca combined with pornography and a Facebook page that maligned the Congress Party’s president, Sonia Gandhi.
During a press conference after the plan came to light, Sibal claimed the proposal was made to protect the "sensibilities" of Indians, and that a country with religious diversity, like India, needs to be sensitive to what is posted on social networking sites to avoid offending any one group.
Facebook has come out publicly against the idea, saying "We will remove any content that violates our terms, which are designed to keep material that is hateful, threatening, incites violence or contains nudity off the service" While other service providers have not responded publicly, Sibal told reporters he was told "They pretty much said they cannot do anything."
The public response to the plan has been highly critical, with #IdiotKapilSibal trending on Twitter Tuesday.
Facebook Won't Censor Posts for India - Technorati Technology
Author: Craig Blaha
Published: December 08, 2011 at 11:29 am
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Kapil Sibal, Indian Communications and Technology Minister, seeks censorshiip from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and TwitterThe Communications and Technology Minister for the largest democracy in the world - India - has submitted a plan to technology leaders from companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft to censor social networking content before it gets posted to the web.
Kapil Sibal, India's Communication and Technology Minister has asked social media leaders to censor material that was incendiary or blasphemous. Sibal has shown a number of examples of what he considers offensive to any "normal human being", including images of Hindu Gods and Mecca combined with pornography and a Facebook page that maligned the Congress Party’s president, Sonia Gandhi.
During a press conference after the plan came to light, Sibal claimed the proposal was made to protect the "sensibilities" of Indians, and that a country with religious diversity, like India, needs to be sensitive to what is posted on social networking sites to avoid offending any one group.
Facebook has come out publicly against the idea, saying "We will remove any content that violates our terms, which are designed to keep material that is hateful, threatening, incites violence or contains nudity off the service" While other service providers have not responded publicly, Sibal told reporters he was told "They pretty much said they cannot do anything."
The public response to the plan has been highly critical, with #IdiotKapilSibal trending on Twitter Tuesday.
