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More Fuel For Facebook Censorship Advocates In India

Posted by Unknown on Monday April 2, 2012 @11:26AM from the censorship-makes-the-world-go-round dept.

thodelu writes "Close on the heels of Friday's communal clashes in a town in India that were triggered by a Facebook post which contained morphed images apparently deriding a religious place of worship, there has been another incident. City police have removed images from another similar blog post citing 'cyber criminal' laws. There has been an ongoing effort in India to censor the web which would get more backing as a result of these events. Could we be seeing another Great Firewall of China?"

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Religious censorship already exists on Facebook by Sqr(twg) · 2012-04-02 18:27 · Score: 4, Informative

Try posting a picture of a woman breastfeeding. It is banned because it offends the American Puritans.
Why shouldn't Facebook also cater to other religions? Their goal is to increase profits, so it makes sense to make the maximum number of customers happy.