{"id":1311,"date":"2011-12-08T06:39:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T06:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/08\/indian-authorities-try-and-fail-to-make-tech\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:57","slug":"indian-authorities-try-and-fail-to-make-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/08\/indian-authorities-try-and-fail-to-make-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Authorities Try (And Fail) to Make Tech Companies Block Politically Offensive Content | Electronic Frontier Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/787275409\/indian-authorities-try-and-fail-to-make-tech-companies-block-politically-offensive-content-electronic-frontier-foundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/787275409\/indian-authorities-try-and-fail-to-make-tech-companies-block-politically-offensive-content-electronic-frontier-foundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/DEsoWpAzg46CFcOthkkv5jl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>The companies ultimately told Telecommunications Minister Kapil\u00a0Sibal that it would be impossible to put this in place, especially given the massive amount of data that they would have to oversee. In response to the companies\u2019 position, Sibal declared that they would take policy measures to enact their strategy, though he wasn\u2019t specific on what form this law would take.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2011\/12\/indian-authorities-try-and-fail-make-tech-companies-block-politically-offensive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via eff.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesThe companies ultimately told Telecommunications Minister Kapil\u00a0Sibal that it would be impossible to put this in place, especially given the massive amount of data that they would have to oversee. In response to the companies\u2019 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/08\/indian-authorities-try-and-fail-to-make-tech\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1041,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/04\/24\/mobile-carriers-lobby-against-cellphone-location\/","url_meta":{"origin":1311,"position":0},"title":"Mobile Carriers Lobby Against Cellphone Location Privacy Bill","author":"aslam","date":"April 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"See on Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesCellphone companies are objecting to proposed California legislation that would force them to publicly report the number of times they turn over cellphone location information to police and federal agents, arguing that it\u2019s too burdensome, and would take time away from the important work\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1885,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2019\/06\/12\/provisions-of-bill-that-sailed-through-congress-make-employees-vulnerable-to-dodgy-401ks-and-create-irs-money-grab\/","url_meta":{"origin":1311,"position":1},"title":"Provisions of bill that sailed through Congress make employees vulnerable to dodgy 401(k)s and create IRS &#8220;money grab&#8221;","author":"aslam","date":"June 12, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"A large bipartisan majority of the US House of Representatives passed the SECURE Act. 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