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Google Buckles Under Pressure Removes Offensive Content. Facebook Refuses To Budge

In the ongoing issue about an Indian Trial court trying to book Google, Facebook, Microsoft and 18 other social networking firms over the alleged ‘Objectionable Content’ being hosted on their sites,...
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Twitter CEO Justifies Twitter’s New Policies: Helping Freedom Of Speech?

We wrote earlier how Twitter censoring some tweets based on requests by Governments is detrimental to social communication as a medium. This caused an outrage on the social network and Tweeps protested...
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Special Feature: Is Twitter Flirting With Self – Censorship?

Twitter has established itself as the poster child (social network) of Rebellion against Governments. The evil one’s anyway! When you look at the uprisings last year in Egypt and Libya, you will realize...
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SOPA – The Act That May Ruin Internet Forever

There has been a lot of hue and cry about a certain bill called SOPA which is in the process of being made an Act. It is called the ‘Stop Online Piracy Act’ (SOPA) and it has some serious ramification...
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Google Lays Bare Government’s Data Removal Pleas

In the light of recent events, Google has released their transparency reports which lay bare the number of data removal requests the Indian Government has been sending them this year. The Government has...
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Italy and Saudi Arabia Move To Regulate User Generated Content? What About The Free Internet?

In February last year an Italian Court handed 3 Google Execs a suspended sentence over a Youtube video which showed some Italian teenagers bullying a child with Down’s syndrome. Even though Youtube...
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India Ranks 3rd in Censoring & Removal Requests To Google – A Detailed Look

Google’s always stood by their stance of “Don’t be Evil“, which apart from their policy on software, also covers basic human rights. The recent Google China controversy brought...
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China 2 – 1 Google – Google vs China Battle

Round 1 27th Jan 2006 “We’re in this for the long haul. In the years to come, we’ll be making significant and growing investments in China. Our launch of google.cn, though filtered,...
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Muzzling social media – Censorship by the Medium?

As someone involved with Social Media, how comfortable are you with pushing the boundaries of the channel? Are you the sort who takes a look at what you can do and then plod along doing just that? In which...
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Saudi Arabia, Blogging And The Freedom Of Expression

The internet is an excellent source of information, and the development of social media has revolutionised the way the internet is being used. True, the UGC is a great opportunity for marketing enthusiasts....
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Censorship Comes To Online Classifieds

Craigslist, a dominant player in online classified segment would soon get rid of its “erotic services” section.This would in turn be replaced by a section called Adult Services with heavy moderation. This...
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