CENSORSHIP IN DEMOCRATIC INDIA
(Reuters) - India has urged social network companies including Facebook, Twitter and Google to remove offensive material, unleashing a storm of criticism from Internet users complaining of censorship in the world's largest democracy.
Telecoms and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal met executives from Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Monday to ask them to screen content, but no agreement with the companies was reached, he said.
Socially conservative India already censors some films and books considered obscene or likely to stoke religious conflict.
The country of 1.2 billion people created new rules earlier this year obliging Internet companies to remove a range of objectionable content when requested to do so, a move criticized at the time by rights groups and social media companies.
The government is very sensitive to criticism of Gandhi, whose family has dominated Indian politics since before independence from the British and has lost two prominent figures to assassination.
By Devidutta Tripathy and Anurag Kotoky
Online uproar as India seeks social media screening | Reuters
1st the anti-democratic invasion and occupation of the country of Kashmir and now the anti-freedom-of-speech censorship on the internet.
India is EXACTLY like North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), democratic only in name. In fact, in terms of living standards and life expectancy, North Korea fares much better than India.
North Korea
Life expectancy 67.3 years
GDP $1,900
IQ 106
India
Life expectancy 64.7 years
GDP $1,527
IQ 79
India is the worlds biggest fake democracy, land of illusion freedom, and home of the miserable and poor.
