India Puts Facebook And 11 Others On Trial
This week, India begins a trial against the social network and 11 other online services for not taking down content that may offend people in this part of the world.
Take that, Facebook: The second most populous nation in the world begins a trial this week against the social network and 11 other online services for not taking down content that India’s people might consider offensive.
India’s laws require Internet companies to remove within 36 hours any material that “seeks to create enmity, hatred and deemed “ethnically objectionable, grossly harmful, defamatory or blasphemous,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
Facebook and the other online services have said that when they’re notified of specific things that offend, then removing them is the companies’ responsibility.
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