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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. Serves 'em right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Go ahead and take our jobs. Go ahead and complete the work in an incompetent fashion. Go ahead and increase the average call time 300% because every single word needs to be spelled so Apu can look it up and attempt to use the call center's Chinese box.
    In 20 years your subcontinent will be starving to death, glutted with two billion people and still lacking indoor plumbing.