Of the 22 companies summoned by a Delhi civil court over objectionable content on their websites, only Google India submitted today that it had removed certain contentious pages. Facebook, Yahoo! India and Microsoft said there was no cause for action against them. In its affidavit, Facebook told the court that it does not control or operate the servers that host the website at www.facebook.com, which are located in the US. Google...

-PTI Facebook India on Monday filed its compliance report before the Delhi court which had ordered it and 21 other websites to remove objectionable content from their websites. Google India also told the court that it has removed certain web pages from the Internet on which the petitioners raised objections. Meanwhile, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft told the court that they have no role to play in the case and there is no cause...

In the case against Google and Facebook for posting “objectionable content” on their websites, petitioner journalist Vinay Rai’s counsel H Hariharan argued in the Delhi High Court (HC) on Thursday that Google could not cite the country’s information technology laws and seek exemption from censoring content since it modified the content on its website to “generate business”. Hariharan argued that Google India could not get exemption under Section 79 of the...

Can Information Technology Act deal with the dynamics of the Net? THIS is one series of court cases the nation is following keenly. Within one week, in December last year, a criminal and a civil complaint were filed against 20-odd online giants like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo for hosting anti-religious and anti-social content on their websites. While the judge hearing the civil case ordered immediate removal and blockade of all...

-PTI The government today said it has no plans to censor the Internet even as it sought to send a strong message to social websites like Google and Facebook that any company wishing to operate in the country will have to follow law of the land. The assertion comes amid growing unease among global website and social media companies over the government asking the social websites to ensure that uploading of derogatory...