India OKs Censoring Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 14, 2012 @02:12AM from the sliding-down-that-slippery-slope dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An Indian court given the green light for the prosecution of '21 social networking sites.' The list features 10 foreign-based companies, and could affect websites provided by Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and YouTube. The recent development is part of an ongoing argument between the companies and India over whether content should be regulated (read: censored) in the country. The approval was actually made on December 23, 2011, but was only revealed yesterday. India warned these websites it can block them just like China can."

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Drastic measures by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-14 02:17 · Score: 5, Funny

To prevent public outrage caused by India's current cricket scores
1. Re:Drastic measures by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2012-01-14 02:51 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  ff there are so many crickets in India, Indians should keep frogs as pets. It also has the added benefit of being a food source and it could further Indian-French relations (I'm sure there are many Indian restaurant in France already, so let's reciprocate.)
  
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