Delhi Court issues summons to Google, Facebook headquarters for objectionable content

Delhi court sent an invitation to the headquarters of foreign Internet companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo on Friday to check your private event, objectionable content on the web. Indian operations a few of these companies had previously said that they are not responsible for its content, because the parent companies to run their websites.

A local newspaper editor Vinay Rai religious sites found that he considered to be offensive, and complained to the court in Delhi, prompting the Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Sudesh Kumar issued notices to 21 sites on the web December 2011.

In an appeal earlier this week, Google India said in Delhi High Court that it was not responsible for the company websites, run by the U.S. parent company of the pass-the-buck stand that many Internet companies have when sued in India. Facebook petition to the High Court.

As the Indian operations of foreign Internet companies threw up their hands and said they were not responsible, Rai sought permission from a judge to serve a notice of a foreign entity in India through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he said Friday.

The judge has asked the foreign entities and Indian Internet companies mentioned in the complaint to appear in court 13th March, Rai said.

Google declined to comment, a new development. Yahoo also declined to comment as the matter was still in court. Facebook and Microsoft did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Case before Magistrate Kumar has been viewed exactly the Indian government has also recently expressed concerns about inappropriate content, including the religious content of websites.

Indian Communications and IT, Kapil Sibal told local TV channels in December that allows the contents of some Internet companies were not able to live up to the laws that they enforce their own standards of your community. When asked, the Ministry, in some cases to remove certain offensive content, Internet companies declined to quote your community standards, Sibal said.

Some newspapers said Sibal asked Internet companies pre-screen the content before it is inappropriate to the Internet. The minister told TV channels that he did not expect, but the Internet company wanted to develop a framework that was objectionable or inflammatory content can be removed quickly.

Indian Information Technology Act requires intermediaries like Internet service providers to remove content that is found objectionable within 36 hours of notification of the content. On foreign Internet companies fall in line with local laws might be just the greatest.

"As Chinese, we will block all such sites," Judge High Suresh Kait said Thursday, while allowing Google and Facebook application to stay proceedings, Judge Sudesh Kumar. He asked counsel Facebook and Google in India to develop a mechanism to keep under control and to remove the "offensive and objectionable" material on your Web pages according to Press Trust of India report.

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