{"id":31967,"date":"2012-01-13T15:53:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T15:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=31967"},"modified":"2012-01-18T07:56:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T07:56:57","slug":"india-court-threatens-facebook-google-with-censorship-like-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=31967","title":{"rendered":"India: Court threatens Facebook, Google with censorship &#8220;like China&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court has threatened Facebook and Google with <a title=\"Mashable : Indian Court to Facebook, Google: Censor Content or We Will Censor You\" href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/01\/12\/facebook-google-india-court\/\" target=\"_blank\">web blackouts<\/a>, unless they agree to censor objectionable content. Following <a title=\"Index on Censorship : INDIA ASKS GOOGLE, FACEBOOK TO SCREEN USER CONTENT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/12\/india-asks-google-facebook-to-screen-user-content\/\" target=\"_blank\">last month&#8217;s<\/a> meetings between\u00a0Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook and the Indian government to discuss content management on their sites,\u00a0Justice Suresh Kait warned that if the internet giants refuse to filter content, their websites will be blocked &#8220;<a title=\"Hindustan Times: We'll do a China, HC warns Facebook, Google\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/News-Feed\/Chunk-HT-UI-Technology-Update-SocialMedia\/We-ll-do-a-China-HC-warns-Facebook-Google\/Article1-796243.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">like China<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0Mukul Rohatgi who testified on behalf of Google India said\u00a0that the search giant cannot filter \u201cobscene, objectionable and defamatory\u201d content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court has threatened Facebook and Google with web blackouts, unless they agree to censor objectionable content. Following last month&#8217;s meetings between\u00a0Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook and the Indian government to discuss content management on their sites,\u00a0Justice Suresh Kait warned that if the internet giants refuse to filter content, their websites will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4061,584,585],"tags":[103,136,263,100,1721],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31967"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32103,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31967\/revisions\/32103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}