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Google Aids Indian Goverment Censorship

Posted by kdawson on from the don't-be-what? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google's Orkut has made a deal to provide IP addresses of posters of content deemed objectionable by Bombay police. They object, among others, to posts against certain Indian personalities, young women admiring Indian mobsters, and, amazingly, "anti-Indian words" (!)."

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  1. Re:"Don't be evil"?? by dreamchaser · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'd be ok with it, or at least *more* ok with it, if they didn't claim to be 'good'. They stopped being anything close to that the day they went public.

  2. Do know Evil? by pair-a-noyd · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Google made my list of sucky corporations a long time ago.
    I've banned google from my network. There's a new search engine in town.
    http://clusty.com/

    See ya google.