Google, Facebook and Microsoft Still Confronting Legal Trouble Over Content


Google, Facebook and Microsoft Still Confronting Legal Trouble Over Content

Bangalore: All the way through 2011 and 2012, tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft were under surveillance by the Indian court and politics, keeping lawyers of these companies fairly busy. The beginning of 2013 too seems not different from the past years.  

According to ZDNet, a summation of the tracks have been reported till today which informs about the current phase the tech companies have been going through so far which includes:

Plans put forward by Kapil Sibal; Minister for Communications and IT to censor the web; backtrack of prescreening user-generated content in response to the comments raised by Facebook and Google; the relentless pursuit of the Indian government to ban technology remarked by Shashi Tharoor through Twitter; polarizing stand by the government and the court on the issue of pre-screening content; and cases against social web companies which led the tech companies to face the present legal dilemma.

According to the report in Business Today, the arguments raised by Facebook India states that the list of companies included in the initial complaint are based from India and they should be sent notices. Further, it was also reported that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook should be called upon through official channels. All the above listed arguments are part of the current case since 2011, and it was issued based on the comments raised by Facebook India.

Google India’s defense stated that the summons against Orkut, Google and YouTube were mistakenly served at their premises. The companies were accused of serious crimes such as promoting enmity between classes and destabilizing national integrity.

Due to several reasons, the politicians and bureaucrats are seriously discussing about curtailing of social media websites. This particular case against the tech companies will still continue in courts until the government passes laws to curb the websites.

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