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Indian Court Orders Google To Remove Content

Posted by samzenpus on from the never-happened dept.

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."

2 of 477 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The guy filing the suit is a muslim by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 1, Troll

    I've seen this a lot out of the Fox News crowd. I don't like X, and I don't like Y, therefore X == Y. Observe: I don't like me some Communism, I don't like Muslims, therefore Muslims are as bad as Commies. Pull yourself out of the Cold War. The only reason Capitalism has won out is that human greed is much easier to predict than human compassion.

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    "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
  2. Re:Reasonable decision by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    You just censor for different things. You hate copyrighted stuff and god knows what else. According to Google, US had asked for 92 content removals requests which took out close to 800 items. India just had 400 items removed from 68 requests.

    For a country with 'free speech' you sure dont sound free to me.