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Rs. 5 lakh-a-day fine warning to Net firms -R Balaji

-The Telegraph

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday censured search engines and social networking sites as "irresponsible" for allowing content that provoked lynchings, threatening a Rs 5 lakh-a-day fine till they developed a fool-proof mechanism to weed out such material.

Eventually, the bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and U.U. Lalit granted 30 days to Yahoo, Facebook Ireland, Facebook India, Google India, Google Inc, Microsoft and WhatsApp to install such a mechanism following assurances from their counsel, who included Kapil Sibal and V. Giri.

"What type of attitude are you adopting? There is so much objectionable material on the social media sites. People are being lynched across the country," Justice Lokur said, before posting the next hearing to August 27.

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