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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
...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
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
While we're at it, why don't we thank it for the Bush administration and it's stifling of scientific progress.
You mean, by becoming the first Administration to provide federal funding for embryonic stem cell research?
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
And we can thank science for WMDs, eugenics, pollution of the environment, human experimentation, and a list of other things far too long to put here.
Or maybe we can just put the blame where it belongs, which is on the people who actually do these evils and use science or religion as cover
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." --John Milton
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...
"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.
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.