December 06, 2011

Indian government asks major internet firms to censor content


Indian Government, after feeling offended by some content on Facebook, Google and other similar platforms, has asked these internet companies to monitor any user generated content before publishing them.
   The New York Times reported that Telecom & IT Minister Kapil Sibal had called legal representatives from the various Internet service providers and Facebook to his office about six weeks ago. He had showed them a Facebook page that allegedly maligned Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
  "This is unacceptable," he had told the representatives, one executive who had attended the meeting said.
The minister had asked them to find a way to monitor what is posted on their sites.
Sibal had asked them to employ humans to censor content, not technology, one executive said.

Is Indian Government unaware of the massive amounts of user generated contents that these sites publish every second or is it an attempt to tackle the growing problem of employment ?  ( sarcasm )

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