By CITIZEN Journalist
December 06, 2011
SOCIAL MEDIA NEWS - Tension brews once again between the Indian government and social media and Internet companies in the country. The telecom ministry demands to Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft and others to screen users content in human and remove offensive material before it is being uploaded.
Over last three months the Indian government is in talks with the Internet giant India office to put a monitoring mechanism on what is being uploaded by users.
IT & telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said the government does not believe in censorship, but believes in self-regulation.
According to the executives of these giants, the materials uploaded in their social platforms are in line with US laws and community standards.
Indian national daily Hindustan Times reported Internet companies saying broad action to the large number of users are impossible.
Facebook has 25 million users in India and more than 10 million users are with the Google products.
No doubt there are a lot of social media and internet users in India. To suggest pre-screening all the users’ content by human beings is a job of impossible. If other Asian countries follow India asking the same question to internet companies, it is like asking social media to shut down. It is the time for site's administrators to balance between individual against defamation with the right to freedom of expression.
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| Indian Telecom & IT Minister Kapil Sibal |
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