<div>right,</div><div>they are taking the ordre public tack</div><div>different story</div><div>this is also a hell of a problem for internet</div><div>because is has such "firestorm" capabilties.</div><div> </div>
<div>We'd punish someone crying "fire" in a crowded theatre</div><div>why not do the same for the net?</div><div> </div><div>Aldo<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 January 2012 08:43, Sivasubramanian M <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:isolatedn@gmail.com">isolatedn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote"><div><font color="#333333"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Hello, </font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#333333"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#333333"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">An update:</font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#333333"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#333333"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#333333"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><b>19 other sites, apart from Facebook and Google face prosecution for 'hosting offensive content':</b></font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#333333"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#333333"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><div>Granting sanction to prosecute 21 social networking websites, including Facebook and Google, the Union government on Friday said there was sufficient material to proceed against them for offences of promoting enmity between different groups of people.</div>
<div><br></div><div>They are “doing acts prejudicial to the maintenance of harmony” and hosting content that is “provocative, assertive and propagates prejudicial to national integration (sic),” it said.</div><div><br></div>
<div><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2798837.ece" target="_blank">http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2798837.ece</a></div></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#333333"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><b><br>
</b></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Sivasubramanian M <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:isolatedn@gmail.com" target="_blank">isolatedn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap">The Delhi High Court on Thursday warned social networking site Facebook India and search engine Google India that websites can be "blocked" like in China if they fail to devise a mechanism to check and remove objectionable material from their web pages.</span></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap">"Like China, we will block all such websites," Justice Suresh Kait said while asking counsel for Facebook and Google India to develop a mechanism to keep a check on and remove "offensive and objectionable" material from their web pages.</span></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap">The two companies had moved the High Court seeking a stay on summons issued to them by a Delhi trial court that is hearing a private criminal complaint against them. Justice Kait did not stay the proceedings against the two websites before the magistrate's court. The case comes up for hearing at the lower court today.</span></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap">Former Additional Solicitor General Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for Google India, said the postings of "obscene, objectionable and defamatory" articles and other things cannot be "filtered" or "monitored".</span></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap">"No human interference is possible, and moreover, it can't be feasible to check such incidents. Billions of people across the globe, post their articles on the website. Yes, they may be defamatory, obscene but cannot be checked," Mr Rohatgi said.</span></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap">He tried to distinguish between Google India and its US-based holding company Google Inc. "The US-based Google Inc is the service provider and not me (Google India) and hence, we are not liable for the action of my holding company. Moreover, it is a criminal case where a vicarious liability can be fastened on a company which has no role, whatsoever, in the alleged offence," the lawyer argued.</span></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap">Citing provisions of the Information Technology Act, the counsel for Google India said these websites are protected by the law in respect of such "objectionable" material so far as they are not the authors. The websites, he said, may lose that legal protection if they either modify or monitor an article or comments or fail to deal with the complaints of an affected person or the government on such issues.</span></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap">More at </span><a href="http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/can-block-websites-like-china-delhi-high-court-warns-facebook-google-166383" target="_blank">http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/can-block-websites-like-china-delhi-high-court-warns-facebook-google-166383</a></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><font size="3" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div>Sivasubramanian M<br><div>ISOC India Chennai</div><div><a href="http://isocindiachennai.org/" target="_blank">http://isocindiachennai.org</a></div>
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