SEO News Corporation, New Delhi: First time in known history, Indian prosecutors are taking the Internet giants like Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to court for refusing to remove insulting contents about Indian leaders and religious figures.
India bureaucrats are upset with the pictures of Manhmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi in compromising positions on social networking sites.
On Friday, the federal government told a New Delhi court that there was sufficient material to proceed against 21 social networking sites for offenses of “promoting enmity between classes and causing prejudice to national integration,” according to the Press Trust of India news agency.
Convictions could bring fines and up to five year imprisonment but the prosecutors have not accused any executive from these companies.
In December, Telecommunication minister Kabil Sibbal told that he had been talking to representatives of major internet companies like Google and Facebook to come up with a voluntary mechanism to keep offensive material off the internet. The companies told they could do nothing about this.
This whole drama is very unfortunate for the Indian economy. India is a major player in the field on software and internet. Rulings like this could only project India as a mentally backward nation in the world which is looking forward to India with great prospects.
India government should not behave like this, although it’s a court ruling but then also no court in the world is allowed to suffocate human expression.
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Vishal Vivek is an advocate of freedom of speech. Currently working as Chief Business Office at SEO corporation, the #1 SEO India Company.








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