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Friday, March 30, 2012
Removal Of Objectionable Contents
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
RAJYA SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO-1933
ANSWERED ON-30.03.2012
(a) whether it is a fact that Government has directed Google, Facebook and Yahoo to remove objectionable contents within 15 days from their sites: (b) if so, the details thereof; (c) whether there are any guidelines which have been issued; (d) if so, the details thereof; (e) whether all websites are following the existing guidelines; (f) if so, the details thereof; and (g) if not, the reasons therefor?
ANSWER
(a) and (b) : Five meetings were held with representatives of social networking sites namely Facebook, Google India and Yahoo India (P) Ltd. In the meetings, some objectionable contents were brought to the knowledge and shown to representatives of social networking sites. They were requested to take appropriate action as per law.
No such direction to remove the content within 15 days was issued by Government to Google, Facebook and Yahoo.
(c) and (d): Government on 11.4.2011, has notified Information Technology (Intermediaries guidelines) Rules, 2011 under Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000. These Rules provide for the intermediaries to observe due diligence and guidelines. The rules provide that the intermediary shall publish the rules and regulations, privacy policy and user agreement for access or usage of the intermediary's computer resource by any person. Such rules and regulations, terms and conditions or user agreement shall inform the users of computer resource not to host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information that is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, libellous, invasive of another''s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatever; etc.
The rules also provide that intermediary upon obtaining knowledge by itself or been brought to actual knowledge by an affected person about objectionable content shall act and wherever applicable, work with the user or owner of information to disable such information.
(e), (f) and (g): These Rules are in the form of due diligence and guidelines which are to be mandatorily observed by all intermediaries.
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
RAJYA SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO-1933
ANSWERED ON-30.03.2012
(a) whether it is a fact that Government has directed Google, Facebook and Yahoo to remove objectionable contents within 15 days from their sites: (b) if so, the details thereof; (c) whether there are any guidelines which have been issued; (d) if so, the details thereof; (e) whether all websites are following the existing guidelines; (f) if so, the details thereof; and (g) if not, the reasons therefor?
ANSWER
(a) and (b) : Five meetings were held with representatives of social networking sites namely Facebook, Google India and Yahoo India (P) Ltd. In the meetings, some objectionable contents were brought to the knowledge and shown to representatives of social networking sites. They were requested to take appropriate action as per law.
No such direction to remove the content within 15 days was issued by Government to Google, Facebook and Yahoo.
(c) and (d): Government on 11.4.2011, has notified Information Technology (Intermediaries guidelines) Rules, 2011 under Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000. These Rules provide for the intermediaries to observe due diligence and guidelines. The rules provide that the intermediary shall publish the rules and regulations, privacy policy and user agreement for access or usage of the intermediary's computer resource by any person. Such rules and regulations, terms and conditions or user agreement shall inform the users of computer resource not to host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information that is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, libellous, invasive of another''s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatever; etc.
The rules also provide that intermediary upon obtaining knowledge by itself or been brought to actual knowledge by an affected person about objectionable content shall act and wherever applicable, work with the user or owner of information to disable such information.
(e), (f) and (g): These Rules are in the form of due diligence and guidelines which are to be mandatorily observed by all intermediaries.
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