Content Screening

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  Facebook comments on "censorship"

  Amid the ongoing storm about the government's request to internet firms to screen user content, Facebook has released a statement

• Court orders social networking sites to remove objectionable images

  A Delhi court has ordered several social networking companies including Facebook, YouTube, Microsoft India, Google and Orkut to remove some images from their websites.

• 'Chilling' impact of India's April internet rules

  Kapil Sibal's demand that Internet companies self-censor users' content is just the latest move by the Indian government to restrict information on Facebook and other social media Web sites. The most stringent government push came in April, when the "Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules 2011" were introduced.

• Facebook comments on "censorship"

  Amid the ongoing storm about the government's request to internet firms to screen user content, Facebook has released a statement

• Storm after Facebook, Google asked to screen content

  Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal will today attempt to explain that his recent requests to companies like Google and Facebook are not an attempt at censorship. What the government reportedly wants is for these companies to monitor user content and prevent offensive material from being posted online. Mr Sibal met with representatives of Yahoo, Google a...