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Indian Minister Seeks To Censor User-Generated Content Online

Posted by timothy on from the oh-that'll-be-a-doddle dept.

First time accepted submitter punit_r writes "Indian minister for Communications & Information Technology Kapil Sibal met officials from Facebook, Google, YouTube and Yahoo on Monday, 5 December 2011, and told them to screen what goes on the sites. He basically asked the websites to actively screen content. How do you screen such massive amount of data? Well, the IT minister has the perfect recipe: 'We'll use humans to screen content and not technology,' said the IT minister. Meanwhile, he got it back from the social media."

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  1. Cool! by thisnamestoolong · · Score: 5, Funny

    So this guy is so rich that he can afford to finance a whole industry of millions of workers to monitor the web? Well, that should solve a lot of economic problems in India! Maybe he could outsource some of those jobs over here!

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  2. Name suggestion by chortick · · Score: 5, Funny

    He could call it the State Telecommunications And Security Initiative? I'll have to check now, I'm worried that STASI might be already taken...

    1. Re:Name suggestion by corbettw · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think Government Experts Stopping Threats Against Political Organizations might work better. Granted, it's longer, but GESTAPO just rolls off the tongue easier.

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