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India: Google, Facebook remove ‘offensive’ web pages

India: Google, Facebook remove ‘offensive’ web pages

By Tue, Feb 07, 2012 11:56AM UTC View Comments India: Google, Facebook remove ‘offensive’ web pages

NEW DELHI (AP) — Google India has removed web pages deemed offensive to Indian political and religious leaders to comply with a court case that has raised censorship fears in the world’s largest democracy, media reported Monday. The action follows weeks of intense government pressure for 22 Internet giants to remove photographs, videos or text...

India’s digital media: Not a fad, it’s just getting started

By Thu, Dec 01, 2011 1:23PM UTC View Comments India’s digital media: Not a fad, it’s just getting started

Indians are taking to social media like never before. Google and Facebook have already realized it. From opening offices in India to including Indic languages and sending Internet enabled buses to India’s hinterlands, they are doing it all. At the center of all this Internet and social media craze are four companies – Google, Facebook,...

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