India cracks down on Internet after communal violence

[IndianMascot]

India pressed social media websites including Facebook and Twitter on Tuesday to remove "inflammatory" content it said helped spread rumors that caused an exodus of migrants from some Indian cities last week.

The government said in a statement it had already blocked access to 245 web pages it said contained doctored videos and images, and the telecommunications secretary, R Chandrashekhar, threatened legal action against the websites if they did not fully comply with the requests to take down the offending pages.

Chandrashekhar told CNN-IBN television that Google and Facebook had largely complied with the government's requests while the response from Twitter had been "extremely poor", though he added that this "may be in part because they don't have an office in India".


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[SPANDAN]

Government Targetting Social Networking Sites for all the reasons in dis World. Even when Manmohan singh felt its meal a bit Spicy then also he blamed social networking sites for this.

 

[IndianMascot]

But this time its a different scenario bro. Cyber Crime Cell has found culprits from Pakistan are circulating morphed images in Internet Social Networking pages and trying to provoke riot on Assam Issue.

 

[SPANDAN]

Indian Government haven't been able to curb the Terrorism frm Borders and now they r showing their strength on Internet.

 

[IndianMascot]

Atleast they are working somewhere

 

[SPANDAN]

They alwayz Works in Wrong Direction.

 

[IndianMascot]

What's wrong in that buddy ?? Do you want a riot in India ?? Do you understand what happened in Assam and Mumbai here ??

Have you seen the pics ?? They are so provocative that riot would start anytime if this kind of activity is not stopped. I won't mind if whole internet is jammed for peace in India.