[x-pubpol] INDIA TO PROSECUTE 21 SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

[Joly MacFie]

http://isocindiachennai.org/?p=677

Google and facebook were warned
yesterday<http://isocindiachennai.org/?p=671> that
their *websites can be “blocked” like in China* if they fail to devise a
mechanism to check and remove objectionable material from their web pages.

As a further development, the Government of India granted sanction to
prosecute 19 other social networking websites, apart from Facebook and
Google. The Union government on Friday said there was sufficient material
to proceed against them for offences of promoting enmity between different
groups of people.

They are “doing acts prejudicial to the maintenance of harmony” and hosting
content that is “provocative, assertive and propagates prejudicial to
national integration (sic),” it said.

The Hindu has more
details<http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2798837.ece>

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