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US Officials Rebuke India's Request To Subpoena Facebook, Google
hypnosec writes "U.S. officials have told the Indian Government that they will not be able to serve summons to the executives of companies like Google and Facebook because they are not convinced that the content hosted on these sites can cause violence and that these summons impact 'free speech principles.' The reply comes as a response to India's request to the US to help serve papers to 11 Internet companies accused of hosting content on their sites that was meant to fuel communal hatred and violence. The U.S. authorities said that there are limitations when it comes to protection on free speech — when the speech comprises a true threat or provokes imminent violence — but in this particular case there is not sufficient evidence of either of these."
Generalize? Hello - here's a wake up call.
India has these draconian laws specifically BECAUSE all those various peoples have used any excuse to go wild and act violently whenever they feel like it.
All the same? Well - of course not. If everyone were the same, there wouldn't be much of an excuse to go wild, now would there?
Today, Indians are crying loudly about gross injustices. Women are crying the loudest, and they are joined by decent men who love their women. Gang rapes are COMMON in India. And, the cops don't investigate them. It is presumed that a lone woman is to be preyed upon. Some of my reading suggests that as many as 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 women are assaulted in India. Especially in the cities, but it isn't uncommon out in the countryside either.
You call it generalizing if you wish. I stand by my post.
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