Indian Government Asks Social Networks To Prescreen User Content Before It is Posted. All Of It.
The New York Times is reporting a rather archaic-sounding move by the Indian government: asking other big social media sites to prescreen all content that users post to remove anything “disparaging, inflammatory or defamatory…before it goes online.”
The telecommunications minister for India, Kapil Sibal, met with top officials from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook this week.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the internet giants refused India’s demands that they prescreen all user content before it is posted, so the government said they will take matters into their own hands.
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