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   Mesonoxian Eve (profile), Jan 13th, 2012 @ 12:24pm

   
   

   Well, there goes the website for the Indian government.
   
   Definitely objectionable material.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Jan 13th, 2012 @ 12:29pm

   
   

   "If the US and China jumped off a bridge......"

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Jan 13th, 2012 @ 12:34pm

   
   

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   THEY DID? I AM SO THERE.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Jan 13th, 2012 @ 12:37pm

   
   

   So Google and Facebook are forced to save all your posts/updates to a page and read it before it's officially posted on the Internet, is that really so bad? How long could it possibly tale two gigantic Internet companies to do that? The Internet only has like a billion users, that shouldn't be a big deal.

    

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   Rikuo (profile), Jan 13th, 2012 @ 12:38pm

   
   

   What exactly happens when this judge is told that his order cannot physically be performed, that its impossible? You can't vet the entire internet for content using such a vague metric as "objectionable and offensive".

    

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   anonymous, Jan 13th, 2012 @ 12:38pm

   
   

   instead of keep trying to please all these idiots, why doesn't Google just pull out from the countries (and that includes the US) that moan about it so much? if the whole company upped sticks to somewhere else that appreciated what they had and the revenue it brought, how long before these moaners would start again because they had moved? never satisfied!

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Jan 13th, 2012 @ 12:39pm

   
   

   So Google and Facebook are forced to save all your posts/updates to a page and read it before it's officially posted on the Internet, is that really so bad? How long could it possibly tale two gigantic Internet companies to do that? The Internet only has like a billion users, that shouldn't be a big deal.
   
   [Sent: 1/13/2010, 3:34 PM]
   [This post was pre-screened and approved by Google: 1/13/2012, 3:34 PM]
   
   (Sorry for double post, the last & most important part of this stupid post didn't show up in my previous one)

    

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   DannyB (profile), Jan 13th, 2012 @ 12:41pm

   
   

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   I've thought that before also. Especially when some small country does it. Maybe Google, Yahoo, et all should just say, okay, bye.
   
   Then see what the reaction is.

    

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   Machin Shin (profile), Jan 13th, 2012 @ 12:41pm

   
   

   I really think it is about time for some of the mega companies like Google to just throw their full weight around. They need to just put out an announcement to all the governments stating that if they keep regulating things they do not understand then the internet will fail. As a demonstration Google could then fully shutdown every server they own for a day.

    

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    Designerfx (profile), Jan 13th, 2012 @ 12:42pm

    
    

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    oh cmon now, it's not just all those users. It's all of their content as well.

     

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    MAJikMARCer (profile), Jan 13th, 2012 @ 12:54pm

    
    

    How the Internet works

    Do these people not understand how the Internet works? If they diminish Google and/or Facebook to the point that they are heavily censored, then some other site is going to pop up, and then another and another. That's the beauty of the Internet. Short of completely taking it down, and I very much doubt that is possible these days, I don't see how these people really think they can stop expression on the Internet.
    
    If it wasn't so scary/dangerous, it would be funny how the powers that be are scurrying around like cockroaches now that their corruption can be so easily exposed to everyone.

     

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    Jason, Jan 13th, 2012 @ 12:58pm

    
    

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    I agree that Google needs to throw its weight around.
    
    I really want Google to execute a hostile takeover of a record company.
    
    I'd get a big bag of popcorn out to watch that show.
    
    The record companies are so poorly run that I would only imagine the remaining ones would be able to survive 1, maybe 2, years with Google competing against them.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Jan 13th, 2012 @ 12:59pm

    
    

    Re: How the Internet works

    No, they don't understand how the internet works.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Jan 13th, 2012 @ 1:00pm

    
    

    SOPA goes to Dehli? Just change a couple words:
    
    The Delhi high court today warned social networking site Facebook India and search engine Google India that websites can be "blocked" like in China if they fail to devise a mechanism to check and remove *copyrighted* material from their web pages. "Like China, we will block all such websites," Justice Suresh Kait said while asking counsel for Facebook and Google India to develop a mechanism to keep a check and remove "*infringing" material from their web pages.
    
    And then SOPA comes to America; change 5 words:
    
    The Washington high court today warned social networking site Facebook and search engine Google that websites can be "blocked" like in China if they fail to devise a mechanism to check and remove *copyrighted* material from their web pages. "Like China, we will block all such websites," Justice R. I. AA. said while asking counsel for Facebook and Google to develop a mechanism to keep a check and remove "*infringing*" material from their web pages.

     

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    V (profile), Jan 13th, 2012 @ 1:04pm

    
    

    Sad testimant to India

    I find this idiot judge's ruling both objectionable and offensive... Google and Facebook... please remove it...

     

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    Arthur (profile), Jan 13th, 2012 @ 1:07pm

    
    

    Since when

    Since when did China's draconian suppression of free speech become an example to be emulated by others? We certainly do live in interesting times.

     

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    DirtyMouthedVixen, Jan 13th, 2012 @ 1:09pm

    
    

    More control

    I wonder how much the judge is being paid off to try and enforce these laws. Government control. Bring down Google and Facebook and restore government control expression. Handing out the numbered jumpsuits to the population is next.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Jan 13th, 2012 @ 1:12pm

    
    

    call their bluff

    I would just call their bluff. If you want to block the two biggest sites on the net, go for it and see how long you stay in office.

     

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    Anonymous Anonymous Coward, Jan 13th, 2012 @ 1:13pm

    
    

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    I may be wrong, but isn't there a large portion of Google employees in India? If Google shuts down in India, will they also pull out their employees, or at least their development or other contracts? What would be the economic impact of closing Google down in India?

     

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    New Mexico Mark, Jan 13th, 2012 @ 1:14pm

    
    

    India tech support after Google and Facebook removal...

    Hello, my name is... Bob, how can I help you?
    
    (a couple of minutes into the call)
    
    I am sorry but I cannot seem to find the answer to your question. Would you like to talk about the weather instead?

     

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    :Lobo Santo (profile), Jan 13th, 2012 @ 1:15pm

    
    

    Re: Since when

    Isn't "May you live in interesting times" supposed to be a potent curse?

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Jan 13th, 2012 @ 1:22pm

    
    

    Waaaait a minute. www.google.com and www.facebook.com seems purty clean to me.
    mebe they should just fax him screenshots of their front pages and say "job done".

     

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    mike allen (profile), Jan 13th, 2012 @ 1:32pm

    
    

    Google should stand up for its users there are other search engines and facebook is not much better.

     

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    Marcus Carab (profile), Jan 13th, 2012 @ 1:41pm

    
    

    Re: Re: Since when

    Yup. I always see it cited as "Ancient Chinese Curse" which is not particularly descriptive, but at least the curse part is probably accurate...
    
    It's like the opposite of "no news is good news"

     

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    Digitari, Jan 13th, 2012 @ 1:42pm

    
    

    RE

    Didn't something like this happen before? I swear that a company Sued google for showing a news story and asked to be censored. then said sorry can we be uncensored google, Please
    
    Google censor India, Please
    
    http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110718/16394915157/belgian-newspapers-give-permission-t o-google-to-return-them-to-search-results.shtml

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Jan 13th, 2012 @ 1:43pm

    
    

    If Google and Facebook comply, I will cease to use them.

     

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    ASTROBOI, Jan 13th, 2012 @ 1:43pm

    
    

    Free India

    I remember being taught, as a little kid, how the freedom loving Indians kicked out the nasty British and Gahndi laid down on the railroad tracks in his nightshirt that he made himself and how wonderful all this stuff was. And now India wants to be "like China" while their citizens make big salaries as telemarketers and phone scammers. Oh well.....

     

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    AzureSky (profile), Jan 13th, 2012 @ 1:44pm

    
    

    if i was google/facebook, i would just block india with a message explaining that their govt dosnt want them using facebook/google....

     

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    Ilfar, Jan 13th, 2012 @ 1:51pm

    
    

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    I have a spare room Google could rent over here...

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Jan 13th, 2012 @ 2:16pm

    
    

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    8 years of footage uploaded to YouTube every day? Yeah, manually checking the copyright status of each and every frame of that, both audio and video, would be a snap.
    
    Let's see, 365.25 days in a year, 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute, 30 frames per second, assuming it takes about an hour on average to find the copyright info for anything visible or audible during each frame, and an eight-hour workday with weekends off... Google would need to hire about 5.4 billion new employees to handle the workload for YouTube alone.
    Now that's job creation!

     

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    el_segfaulto (profile), Jan 13th, 2012 @ 2:57pm

    
    

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    There would be two fewer oppressive regimes in the world?

     

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    Bergman (profile), Jan 13th, 2012 @ 3:01pm

    
    

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    Simple: Whoever tells the judge that goes to prison for contempt of court, and will be released only when they comply with the judge's order.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Jan 13th, 2012 @ 3:06pm

    
    

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    Damnit Timmy!

     

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    Bergman (profile), Jan 13th, 2012 @ 3:07pm

    
    

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    Well, since determining whether something is objectionable is something only a human can do using current technology, odds are your post would be approved sometime in 2147, not 2012.

     

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    Jk News on Google Facebook, Jan 14th, 2012 @ 3:00am

    
    

    Google Facebook ban in India

    I'm surprised by this. Ironically, things like pornography and other cyber crimes don't seem to go against the "ethnic" and "religious" culture of India, but obscene pictures of goddesses and politicians seem to be an issue of concern for the government. Barring sights like google and facebook, like China, means withdrawing the freedom of expression from many Indians. Would India then, still be worth calling the "world's largest democracy"?

     

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    Dave P, Jan 14th, 2012 @ 5:08am

    
    

    Techically incompetent judge - again!.

    Google and the like will doubtless employ the whole planet to sit down 24/7 to filter results! What a ludicrous ruling, borne out of complete and utter ignorance of how the net works and just how large it is.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Jan 14th, 2012 @ 7:04am

    
    

    You in heap big trouble now, paleface.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Jan 15th, 2012 @ 8:10am

    
    

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    Got Febreze?

     

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    Stone cold pete 316, Jan 28th, 2012 @ 7:19pm

    
    

    Please read

    I disagree Mr. designer fx itis not all of our users fault or the content or what we are putting on the Internet at all

     

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    lrobbo (profile), Jun 7th, 2012 @ 9:38am

    
    

    Good to luck to them enforcing this one . . .

     

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