Facebook, Others Summoned To Appear Before Indian Trial Court Sept. 22

A criminal case in India involving Facebook and several other Internet companies moved one step further, as executives from the involved firms were summoned to appear before a trial court in the country Sept. 22, but a petition for dismissal before the Delhi High Court is set to be heard Aug. 7.

A criminal case in India involving Facebook and several other Internet companies moved one step further, as executives from the involved firms were summoned to appear before a trial court in the country Sept. 22, but a petition for dismissal before the Delhi High Court is set to be heard Aug. 7.

The case is the result of a complaint by Indian journalist Vinay Rai, and it is based on an Indian law that requires Internet companies to remove within 36 hours any material that is deemed “ethnically objectionable, grossly harmful, defamatory, or blasphemous.”

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