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Google's orkut gets legal trouble in India for running anti-Indian community
Made Popular Oct 10 2006
Orkut, Google’s social networking site, is spreading anti-Indian words on Internet. Advocate Yugant R Marlapalle has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in Aurangabad bench of Bombay High Court on this issue.
In the response to the PIL, Justice A P Deshpande and Justice R M Borde have sent a directive to the Maharashtra government to issue notice to Google for the alleged spread of hatred about India by its social network service Orkut.
In the petition, it is said that the Orkut is consisted a picture of burning the national tricolour, bearing anti-India message. There is an anti-Indian community We Hate India has been created on the site.
The petition has demanded to appoint a controller as well under the Information Technology Act-2000 to restrict such kind of communities being in operation on the internet.
The court will hear the case after six weeks.
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Neha A
thelatestone.com
Oct 11 2006
Delhi,
India
I am agree with dhruv, these kinds of acts can not afffect to our mind, we are indian and proud to be an indian, please overlooked these sick people, they do not deserve anything.
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(Local Perspectives)
respect everyone feelings . i have really bad words for those who created this community and orkut should also take this balm as knowingly they are not blocking this .
i request all indian to stop using orkut . you can switch to callinglife.com a better site than orkut
i request all indian to stop using orkut . you can switch to callinglife.com a better site than orkut
(Local Perspectives)
callinglife.com is much better than orkut . pratiksha u r right we all should shift to callinglife.com
(Local Perspectives)
in india hardly 5 % people use internet
and if keep banning websites % will decrease to 2 or 3 %
government trying to increase internet users for education and other development
, spreading internet network in villages
If orkut has to ban why not yahoo rediff , it also contain terrorist mails , anti Indian material , if orkut has to ban why not postal department it also contain terrorist letters and other material ,
If there are 95% uses there will be 5% miss use , we should find that 5 % and not disappoint 95% people
and if keep banning websites % will decrease to 2 or 3 %
government trying to increase internet users for education and other development
, spreading internet network in villages
If orkut has to ban why not yahoo rediff , it also contain terrorist mails , anti Indian material , if orkut has to ban why not postal department it also contain terrorist letters and other material ,
If there are 95% uses there will be 5% miss use , we should find that 5 % and not disappoint 95% people
(Local Perspectives)
I remember when I was in school (8th Std to be precise) I learnt about the Indian constitution in my civics class. We have what is known as fundamental rights and responsibilities. One of the fundamental rights states that we have the right to freedom of speech and expression.
These people are free express their dislike of India if they wish to do so. Similarly we have the freedom to not like what they say, but we don’t have the right to demand that orkut take their group off because we disagree with their opinions. The government certainly should NOT have the right to demand orkut to take the content off. If our govt can force them to take the content off, what makes us different from other countries where freedoms of free expression are repressed? What happens when it sets a precedent for the govt to repress dissenting opinions by citizens? Such things can set very bad precedents.
But we are consumers. And we are free to stop doing business with orkut if their business practices offend us.
My point is, if you disagree with the content in orkut, by all means find a different social networking provider. However the government should not have any right in demanding such information be taken off because it might offend certain people.
These people are free express their dislike of India if they wish to do so. Similarly we have the freedom to not like what they say, but we don’t have the right to demand that orkut take their group off because we disagree with their opinions. The government certainly should NOT have the right to demand orkut to take the content off. If our govt can force them to take the content off, what makes us different from other countries where freedoms of free expression are repressed? What happens when it sets a precedent for the govt to repress dissenting opinions by citizens? Such things can set very bad precedents.
But we are consumers. And we are free to stop doing business with orkut if their business practices offend us.
My point is, if you disagree with the content in orkut, by all means find a different social networking provider. However the government should not have any right in demanding such information be taken off because it might offend certain people.
(Global Perspectives)
We are not entitled to censor everything we disagree with. That is simply not the purpose of censorship. We cannot change the world we live in simply by being grumpy nationalists, denying the wide array of perspectives present in this world.
Allow criticism of religion and social conditions, because if something is truly wrong with them, and we do not have the option of criticising them so others will see this, we risk devolving into petty police states or remaining as feudal societies where nothing is allowed.
This Orkut forum\’s welcome message sounds like: \”The sole purpose of this community isn\’t meant to offend india.Its about having a group of people who have enemity for india just coz of its oppressive & hostile approach.\” - clearly, this is a critique of the government, not the culture and the people. (Reading some of the posts in the forum, however, makes me acknowledge that others just use this as an excuse to bash cultural identities.)
Allow criticism of religion and social conditions, because if something is truly wrong with them, and we do not have the option of criticising them so others will see this, we risk devolving into petty police states or remaining as feudal societies where nothing is allowed.
This Orkut forum\’s welcome message sounds like: \”The sole purpose of this community isn\’t meant to offend india.Its about having a group of people who have enemity for india just coz of its oppressive & hostile approach.\” - clearly, this is a critique of the government, not the culture and the people. (Reading some of the posts in the forum, however, makes me acknowledge that others just use this as an excuse to bash cultural identities.)
(Global Perspectives)
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