Facebook Tells India It Won't Help Censor the Web 168
An anonymous reader writes "Indian Communications and IT minister Kapil Sibal yesterday announced a proposal to have technology companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and Twitter pre-screen user generated content so that community sentiments are not hurt. Social media platforms are being asked to censor whatever politicians deem objectionable and too offensive for the Internet. Sibal called a news conference when the story broke, and following it, Facebook responded to say that it can't help in the effort."
Duh... (Score:5, Funny)
Interesting... (Score:5, Funny)
I think it's interesting to see India asking for IT help.
Well ... (Score:5, Funny)
If you want to filter something, block his campaign ads when it's time for re-election.
Wait, wait, wait, wait (Score:4, Funny)
Hell = auditing youtube comments for an eternity (Score:5, Funny)
Here's my suggestion: tie him down to a chair and pry open his eyelids clockwatch orange style, and then have him screen youtube comments for 8 hours.
Not only will Facebook not help Censor... (Score:4, Funny)
They'll indvertantly have accumunated a lot of private info on Indian politicos and the State and accidently exposed it all through a defect in code, which will redirect all Indian FB users to pages of it, but for one day only, until they find the bug and fix it.
So there :P
Re:Facebook (Score:3, Funny)
Exactly! Censorship is a form of privacy, and Facebook doesn't do that.
Re:Simple (Score:5, Funny)