India Asks Google, Facebook to Screen User Content
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India Asks Google, Facebook to Screen User Content
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Re: India Asks Google, Facebook to Screen User Content
#2Just. Wow. Mind boggling amounts of stupidity.
"In the second meeting with the same executives in late November, Mr. Sibal told them that he expected them to use human beings to screen content, not technology, the executive said.
The three executives said Mr. Sibal has told these companies that he expects them to set up a proactive prescreening system, with staffers looking for objectionable content and deleting it before it is posted."
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#3I'd like it if the companies asked to do this just pulled out of the country altogether. "Can't deal with the fundamental nature of the internet? No internet, then." It's needlessly vindictive on my part, but we've seen this story play out again and again. That's not how it works!
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#4Ridiculous - "At the meeting, Mr. Sibal showed attendees a Facebook page that maligned the Congress Party’s president, Sonia Gandhi. “This is unacceptable,” he told attendees, the executive said, and he asked them to find a way to monitor what is posted on their sites."
I'm not allowed to criticize my government in a public forum? Pardon my language, but this is fucking ridiculous.
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#5Not an unusual request considering the utter cluelessness and Sycophantic bootlicking of the people involved.
Consider that the perceived slight is to the defacto head of India - Sonia Gandhi (a person with terrifying power but Zero accountability, completely outside the Govt.) this is being held up as the reason to institute an Orwellian nightmare of Censorship. A reasonable response is FU in nice terms.
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#6What is this? Watch your speech, because Big Sib has installed the Netpolice; that which does not ingratiate itself to the fancies of the power-mongers shall be expunged.
No service provider should bear, or provide any means to further, this idiocy.
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#7Why is Indian govt afraid of its own citizens words?
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#8Why is Indian govt afraid of its own citizens words?
There is a cultural angle to this - Indian politicians (and even lots of jingoistic citizens) take insults to their honour/culture waaaay too seriously. That, and they're troglodytes who don't understand the Internet.
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#9Why is Indian govt afraid of its own citizens words?
There is a cultural angle to this - Indian politicians (and even lots of jingoistic citizens) take insults to their honour/culture waaaay too seriously. That, and they're troglodytes who don't understand the Internet.
This I don't understand. Most of the Chinese and Indian politicians have STEM backgrounds. In theory, they are supposed to be very smart and critical thinkers. I find it hard to believe that someone that believes in the theory of evolution and the laws of thermodynamics doesn't have the same regard for freedom of expression or the cost of the human life.
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#10"A man who answered the phone in Mr. Rai’s office said he did not talk to the press and hung up when a reporter asked for a press contact."
Wow.