Indian Judge Tells Google And Facebook To 'Check And Remove Objectionable Material' Or Be Blocked
from the do-the-impossible dept
A few weeks back, Techdirt reported on an Indian minister asking Internet companies to do the impossible:
The Indian government has asked Internet companies and social media sites like Facebook to prescreen user content from India and to remove disparaging, inflammatory or defamatory content before it goes online, three executives in the information technology industry say.
At the time, you could dismiss this as just the usual grandstanding by a politician trying to score points with the home audience. It now seems that things are much more serious than that. koolhead17 sends us news that an Indian High Court judge is not only asking for pretty much the same impossible things, but threatening to block sites "like in China" if they don't:
The Delhi high court today 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. "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 and remove "offensive and objectionable" material from their web pages.
Worryingly, this lack of comprehension about what is technically possible is not confined to India, as the debates around SOPA have revealed only too painfully.
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Definitely objectionable material.
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Let's see, 365.25 days in a year, 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute, 30 frames per second, assuming it takes about an hour on average to find the copyright info for anything visible or audible during each frame, and an eight-hour workday with weekends off... Google would need to hire about 5.4 billion new employees to handle the workload for YouTube alone.
Now that's job creation!
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Then see what the reaction is.
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[Sent: 1/13/2010, 3:34 PM]
[This post was pre-screened and approved by Google: 1/13/2012, 3:34 PM]
(Sorry for double post, the last & most important part of this stupid post didn't show up in my previous one)
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I really want Google to execute a hostile takeover of a record company.
I'd get a big bag of popcorn out to watch that show.
The record companies are so poorly run that I would only imagine the remaining ones would be able to survive 1, maybe 2, years with Google competing against them.
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How the Internet works
If it wasn't so scary/dangerous, it would be funny how the powers that be are scurrying around like cockroaches now that their corruption can be so easily exposed to everyone.
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The Delhi high court today 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 *copyrighted* material from their web pages. "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 and remove "*infringing" material from their web pages.
And then SOPA comes to America; change 5 words:
The Washington high court today warned social networking site Facebook and search engine Google that websites can be "blocked" like in China if they fail to devise a mechanism to check and remove *copyrighted* material from their web pages. "Like China, we will block all such websites," Justice R. I. AA. said while asking counsel for Facebook and Google to develop a mechanism to keep a check and remove "*infringing*" material from their web pages.
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Sad testimant to India
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Since when
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It's like the opposite of "no news is good news"
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More control
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call their bluff
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India tech support after Google and Facebook removal...
(a couple of minutes into the call)
I am sorry but I cannot seem to find the answer to your question. Would you like to talk about the weather instead?
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mebe they should just fax him screenshots of their front pages and say "job done".
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Google censor India, Please
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110718/16394915157/belgian-newspapers-give-permission-t o-google-to-return-them-to-search-results.shtml
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Free India
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Google Facebook ban in India
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Techically incompetent judge - again!.
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