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Indian Court Orders Google To Remove Content
itwbennett writes "A Court in Delhi, India has ordered Google to remove content that 'is said to mock gods worshipped in India,' according to an IDG News Service report. Mufti Ajiaz Arshad Qasmi, a private citizen, 'had filed a civil suit against Google and other Internet companies including Facebook, objecting to certain content on their websites.' While Google agreed to remove the content, citing a 'long-standing policy of responding to court orders,' other Internet companies named in the suit are likely to appeal."
A big hardy "FUCK YOU!"
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
So it's ok to say anything you want, but don't offend religion? What happend to freedom of speech? I think the world is better off without Religion if you ask me!
-- By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
...and my hands were on it.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
"No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult." --RMS
If I am not a member of your religion then I don't want your stupid religious crap affecting me. In any way.
This can be applied to any religious group complaining about content offensive to their religion(I think we know the usual culprit here).
Gods are rather powerful and knowing. Can't they just deal with this stuff without involving Google?
The determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language.
It all depends on the extend of the mockery here.
Let's call it "The Rise Of The State"
21st cenury marked by people rising up, overthrowing unjust tyranical regimes, meanwhile democracies pare away the rights of the people. Anyone see irony here?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
This. I am a deeply religious person, and sometimes offended by the insults of unbelievers, but I will defend to the death their right to insult.
When have facts ever stopped bigotry? Just asking...
Has the content only been removed from all of Google's websites, or just Google India?
It's scary to think of what the Interenet would look like if each and every website had to follow the laws of each and every country. I know the fact that Google has facilities in India puts significant pressure on them to comply, but the thought of being bound by the numerous idiotic laws around the world is extremely worrisome.
Google is apparently adopting a strategy of censoring content on a per-country basis. That's their privilege, but I hope it doesn't become the norm.
"In prison you just have to shut your eyes and take it. Here you have to shut your eyes and give it."
"And agreeing to take it down has destroyed the Google employees' defense that they could not have preemptively taken it down because it is out of their control." ...
umm...
I think you don't understand the word preemptive.
Singh and Gandhi in compromising positions and pigs running through Mecca, Islam’s holiest city
The first part make the lawsuit make a little sense and make it so that the Slashdot Title is incorrect. In the US it could be considered parody, but parody usually comes close to libel and slander. Gandhi and Singh are also not Gods but religious figures. I'm a bit surprised they took a stance on the Pigs running though Mecca, but it's probably politically motivated to appease some Islamic views so that maybe possibly they might find some common ground (wishful thinking but that's what it sounds like).
A party should have a right to discuss such a law; it's that discussion that's being defended, not the law itself.
If you're not offended, you're not living in a free society.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
This isn't a protection of God, it's a protection of those men who claim to speak for God.
Gandhi never claimed to speak for God. He didn't elevate himself to Mahatma ether. Those where things that others attributed to him just as you are attributing that he and others like him would commit murder for this offense.
If I were to draw a picture of Drew Barrymore prostituting herself out on the Vegas Strip I could easily find myself slapped with a lawsuit as well. Free speech doesn't mean freedom to commit libel and slander.
And most of the other countries have suppressed evidence of genocide (Saudi Arabia, China, especially Turkey, India), suppress entire political ideologies (France, India) ... in addition to all of what you say happened in the USA.
And I do agree with the other criticism against you : most of what you complain about boils down to suppressing warez sites. Which just doesn't compare to the atrocities those other countries (excepting perhaps France) commit. Warez doesn't deserve defense.