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Facebook Tells India It Won't Help Censor the Web
An anonymous reader writes "Indian Communications and IT minister Kapil Sibal yesterday announced a proposal to have technology companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and Twitter pre-screen user generated content so that community sentiments are not hurt. Social media platforms are being asked to censor whatever politicians deem objectionable and too offensive for the Internet. Sibal called a news conference when the story broke, and following it, Facebook responded to say that it can't help in the effort."
Of course not, censorship would hurt their business model. People need to share their dirt to sell it!
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I think it's interesting to see India asking for IT help.
If you want to filter something, block his campaign ads when it's time for re-election.
...Facebook...doing something....good? Does not Compute.
Didn't Mr. Sibal suggest that they will use humans to screen the contents?
Here's my suggestion: tie him down to a chair and pry open his eyelids clockwatch orange style, and then have him screen youtube comments for 8 hours.
They'll indvertantly have accumunated a lot of private info on Indian politicos and the State and accidently exposed it all through a defect in code, which will redirect all Indian FB users to pages of it, but for one day only, until they find the bug and fix it.
So there :P
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Exactly! Censorship is a form of privacy, and Facebook doesn't do that.
We call this a "Zuckerpunch".