{"id":1314,"date":"2011-12-06T18:52:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T18:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/06\/online-uproar-as-india-seeks-social-media\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:57","slug":"online-uproar-as-india-seeks-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/06\/online-uproar-as-india-seeks-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Online uproar as India seeks social media screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/779029049\/online-uproar-as-india-seeks-social-media-screening\" 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\/779029049\/online-uproar-as-india-seeks-social-media-screening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/iSxyIeq6d2BUBPdCqrhE_Dl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/> India has urged social network companies including Facebook, Twitter and Google to remove offensive material, unleashing a storm of criticism from Internet users complaining of censorship in the world&rsquo;s largest democracy. \u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/technology\/Online+uproar+India+seeks+social+media+screening\/5818791\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via montrealgazette.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; Liberties India has urged social network companies including Facebook, Twitter and Google to remove offensive material, unleashing a storm of criticism from Internet users complaining of censorship in the world&rsquo;s largest democracy. \u00a0Via montrealgazette.com<\/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-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1302,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/10\/india-kapil-sibal-vs-the-netizens-on-filtering\/","url_meta":{"origin":1314,"position":0},"title":"India: Kapil Sibal vs. The Netizens On Filtering Social Media \u00b7 Global Voices","author":"aslam","date":"December 10, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties Earlier this week, the Indian Union Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal asked internet giants such as Facebook, Google and Yahoo to pre-screen derogatory, defamatory and inflammatory content about political leaders and religion. \u00a0Via globalvoicesonline.org","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1106,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/02\/09\/google-begins-censoring-content-in-india\/","url_meta":{"origin":1314,"position":1},"title":"Google Begins Censoring Content In India","author":"aslam","date":"February 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesVia webpronews.com","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1190,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/01\/03\/infochange-india-news-features-development-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":1314,"position":2},"title":"InfoChange India News &amp; Features development news India &#8211; The burden of being Muslim","author":"aslam","date":"January 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties After every terror strike India\u2019s Muslim youth are fearful \u2013 of encounters, illegal detention and torture. 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