We are the Web

Kapil Sibal, Union minister for communications and information technology, caused great consternation when he declared his intention to scour the Web of “objectionable content”. He showed reporters choice examples of material that maligned Islam, the PM and Sonia Gandhi, among others, and insisted that companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc, make sure they conform to India’s “community standards” and weed this stuff out themselves. He also reportedly added that he didn’t mean automatic filters, he wanted human monitors. He announced these radical changes on his own, without even a pro forma public consultation on a matter that affects our freedoms so powerfully.

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