[governance] Google removes offensive webpages as ordered by Indian court,(Xinhua)

[parminder]

On Wednesday 08 February 2012 01:51 PM, William Drake wrote:
> And in a similar IBSA vein…
>
> Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/07/brazil_twitter/
>
> Brazil sues Twitter over police checkpoint tweets
> Threatens $290k fine… daily
>
> Internet governance begins at home, but I guess a United Nations 
> Committee for Internet-Related Policies with a mandate to "facilitate 
> negotiation of treaties, conventions and agreements on 
> Internet-related public policies" could help with the development of 
> complementary/reinforcing global standards…

Why would one want to forget that various global human rights 
instruments are internationally negotiated agreements too, which were 
then followed by UN summits (with their negotiated texts) on various 
global issues of greatest importance... And our beloved IGF is also the 
product of one such Summit and its negotiated text......

What is so special about the new context that we need to, /ipso facto/, 
look down upon such global agreements? Or this an expression of the 
post-democratic sentiment that is so much prelevant both in technical 
governance spaces and among neolibs, their cross, in my understanding, 
being the most potent political problem which we face today.

It is also important to note who makes the global law in absence of 
international agreements in the new information society spaces - the 
digital mega-corporations and the richest nations.... While we know 
there are problems on both sides, one has to pick ones choice. As 
famously said, in politics inaction itself is a significant choice.

(BTW, notices to google for taking down content has been rising at a 
similar rate from Northern countries as from Southern.)

So, while noting the bad blood in IBSA vein, will also be good to take 
note of what happens in the OECD's vein. The way a new global order is 
being shaped, right now in front of our eyes, with illicit IP rights and 
illicit forms of their enforcement at its base. Spaces for international 
agreements can certainly provide a countervailing force to these very 
problematic developments. At the same time, international agreements can 
also be useful to limit arbitrary measures of content control by 
agreements on some basic standard and procedures . After all, an 
international agreement cannot be sealed by IBSA or China alone, it will 
need all the good hearted countries of the North to sign it as well.

parminder
>
> Bill
>
>
> On Feb 7, 2012, at 8:11 PM, Riaz K Tayob wrote:
>
>>
>>   Google removes offensive webpages as ordered by Indian court
>>
>>
>>       (Xinhua <http://www.xinhuanet.com/english2010/>)
>>
>>
>>       15:17, February 07, 2012 <icon16.gif> <icon17.gif>
>>       <http://english.people.com.cn/90777/7722223.html#> <icon18.gif>
>>       <http://english.people.com.cn/90777/7722223.html#>
>>
>> NEW DELHI, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- The U.S.-based search giant Google has 
>> told a trial court in the Indian capital that it has removed certain 
>> offensive webpages from the web in compliance with the court's order, 
>> local media reported Tuesday.
>>
>> Google India informed the court of additional civil judge Praveen 
>> Singh that as per its directions, the search giant has removed the 
>> contents, the daily The Times of India reported.
>>
>> The court had last December directed Google and 21 other websites, 
>> many foreign-based, to remove all the objectionable content in the 
>> form of photographs, videos or texts which might hurt religious 
>> sentiments.
>>
>> Meanwhile, Facebook India told the court that it does not control or 
>> operate the servers that host the website available at 
>> www.facebook.com, which are located in the United States.
>>
>> In fact, the court's order was in the wake of a civil case filed by a 
>> man who sought removal of "anti-religious" or "anti- social" content 
>> in the form of photographs, videos or texts which might hurt 
>> religious sentiments.
>>
>> While Facebook and Google India filed their compliance reports, 
>> Yahoo! and Microsoft filed applications for deletion of their names 
>> from the civil complaint stating that there was no allegation against 
>> them of webcasting any objectionable content, the report said.
>>
>> After the hearing, the court directed the accused to file compliance 
>> report within 15 days from the date of the order while fixing the 
>> matter for further arguments on March 1.
>>
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