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India Asks Facebook, Google, Others To Pre-Screen Users' Content

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.

Indian Telecom & IT Minister Kapil Sibal

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WWW Turns 20, Team Asia Pacific News Thanks Tim Berners-Lee

By STAFF Writer
August 07, 2011

On August 6, 1991 the World Wide Web was born. Tim Berners-Lee, the brain behind World Wide Web, posted a summary of a project to organize information on a computer network by making use of a "web" of hyperlinks: the "WorldWideWeb," also then known as W3. The W3 made its debut then as a publicly available service on the Internet.

In two decades of the WWW, the world has been completely changed. The world got speed in almost everything. From sending letters to making phone calls, and from shopping to watching missed TV series. Everything has been changed.

Asia Pacific News entire team gives a big thank to Tim Berners-Lee for revolutionizing the world.

A dozen best presents that World Wide Web has given to the world:

Search engines like Goolge, Bing and Yahoo that made searching easy and simple with few simple keystrokes. No more going to library for information.

Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, and other such email services made our letters reach in real time along with sending photos, songs, videos and more.

Wikipedia, the most reliable and best source for information, became the encyclopedia on the Internet.

Social networking sites such as Facebook, Google+ and Orkut revolutionized the way we communicate with our friends, relatives, and other people.

YouTube and few other video sites made broadcasting ourself possible with no cost. Teen reality star Justin Bieber was discovered on YouTube.

Skype, Google Voice, Yahoo messenger, and many other sites made voice and video calling possible from anywhere.


Tila Tequila is a star born on the World Wide Web. The reality star was discovered on MySpace. Similarly, teen superstardom Justin Bieber was found on YouTube.

Amazon, ebay, and many other shopping sites made shopping easy and made it possible to shop from within the four walls of our home or office.

Hackers likes Lulzsec and Anonymous, though nuisance to authorities, have gathered much media attention across the world.


Missing your favorite show was made possible to watch through sites like Hulu, Netflix, Redbox, amazon.com Prime etc.

Smartphones are the ultimate gifts of World Wide Web.

GPS service is one of the best gifts and highly helpful to find where in the world is XYZ. You can locate anyone with the help of GPS system.

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