How many of you are addicted to make friends on Facebook and by default your hands type Google when you have to search something important?Well we can't think internet without these two websites. We are so addicted to these websites that we have started thinking that if their is no Facebook or Google on net , then their is no internet.
Also the country like India where these websites play a big role in peoples life can't be thought without these two. But unfortunately Delhi high court have given a warning to Facebook and Google on 12 Jan to filter the content or less they will be banned in India , just like in China.The High Court said that if the websites fail to devise a mechanism to check and remove objectionable material from their web pages, they will ban both the websites in India leading to a complete blackout.
Now not only is this dictatorship rather than a democracy, this is totally unacceptable. The government wants content to be “filtered”, monitored and the obscene content to be removed. Even though this is being said in an attempt to remove ‘obscene’ content but it appears the definition of ‘obscene’ is completely different for the court/government and the general public.
Also the country like India where these websites play a big role in peoples life can't be thought without these two. But unfortunately Delhi high court have given a warning to Facebook and Google on 12 Jan to filter the content or less they will be banned in India , just like in China.The High Court said that if the websites fail to devise a mechanism to check and remove objectionable material from their web pages, they will ban both the websites in India leading to a complete blackout.
Now not only is this dictatorship rather than a democracy, this is totally unacceptable. The government wants content to be “filtered”, monitored and the obscene content to be removed. Even though this is being said in an attempt to remove ‘obscene’ content but it appears the definition of ‘obscene’ is completely different for the court/government and the general public.
Thing that the high court needs to understand is that the ‘obscene’ content never pops up until and unless one searches for it. As for facebook, there isn’t a mechanism to monitor the obscene content but the users or rather the ‘addicts’ are pretty much working in a way to help people at facebook know about the obscene content i.e. by hitting the ‘report abuse’ button. The fact is, as I said above, the general definition of ‘obscenity’ is completely different for the ‘political’ people and the general public. The obscene content for the political people is anything against the government and for the general public it is obscene content. As simple as that!
“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 “offensive and objectionable” material from their web pages.
It appears we are slowly and slowly slipping into a dictatorship after all. Even though I hold no grudges against the present government for we all know each and every politician deserves a number of ‘obscene’ words. All we can do is hope for the court and the government to understand for we all know life without Google and Facebook will be a different story altogether!
