[x-pubpol] India’s Courts Grapple With Web Censorship

[Joly MacFie]

http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/14/indias-courts-grapple-with-web-censorship/


 As the Indian judge alluded to in his statement in court on Thursday,
China has a firewall through which all Web content passes.

Mukul Rohatgi, an attorney representing Google in India, described such a
prospect this way: “The remedy can’t be worse than the disease,” he said.

Google and Facebook refused to comment on the case, except to say they had
filed a motion in the New Delhi High Court to dismiss the criminal case.

The case follows a suggestion by a government
official<http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/14/2011/12/05/india-asks-google-facebook-others-to-screen-user-content/>,
Kabil Sibal, to prescreen Web content to remove offensive material . The
companies refused. A few days later, another government minister, Sachin
Pilot, told The New York Times India
Ink<http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/14/2011/12/22/a-conversation-with-sachin-pilot/>
blog
in an interview: “There is absolutely no intent of anyone to restrict or
censor anything that’s available on the Internet.”

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