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本帖最后由 lilyma06 于 2012-1-19 16:43 编辑
India not a totalitarian regime like China: Google
http://www.hindustantimes.com/technology/SocialMedia-Updates/India-not-a-totalitarian-regime-like-China-Google/SP-Article1-798075.aspx
New Delhi, January 16, 2012
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Delhi court summons 21 social networking sites
Google India, which along with 20 websites is facing criminal case for allegedly hosting objectionable materials, today told the Delhi high court that blocking them was not an option as a democratic India does not have a "totalitarian" regime like China.
"The issue relates to a
constitutional issue of freedom of speech and expression and suppressing it was not possible as the right to freedom of speech in democratic India separates us from a totalitarian regime like China," advocate NK Kaul, appearing for Google India, told justice Suresh Kait.
During last hearing, justice Kait had warned Google India and social networking site Facebook India that websites can be "blocked" like in China if they fail to devise a mechanism to check and remove objectionable material from their web pages.Responding to the court's remark, Kaul referred to media reports on the issue saying "they (reports) suggest the existance of the right (freedom of speech)."
Initiating arguments, Kaul said internet is a global system which have billions of users that also included companies, private persons and the governments and their departments.
He filed a representation in the court and said an online search for a word like "virgin" has 82.30 crore search results within 0.33 seconds and the idea of blocking a word like this would deprive net-users the required information.
"The queries could relate to Virgin Airlines or for that matter 'virgin areas for inventions', he said.
Seeking quashing of the summons issued against the firm by a lower court, he said Google India is neither a search engine nor a web hosting site and was a distinct legal entity from its US-based holding company Google Inc, a search engine.
"No criminal liability can be fastened on Google India," he said.
The counsel for the website sought to distinguish between Google India and its US-based holding company Google Inc.
Google Inc is a service provider and not the Google India and hence, it (Google India) cannot be held accountable for any alleged offence committed by its holding company, he said.
Even Google Inc cannot be held accountable for the acts of third parties who simply used the websites for posting or publishing "obsecene or objectionable" materials, Kaul said and gave illustrations as to how search engines act.
"Search engines like Google Inc does not and cannot control the websites to which users are trasnported to by them. The contents belong to the websites to which the users have visited and not to the search engines," he said.
"I (Google Inc) have nothing to do with the websites and their (offending) contents to which the users are being transported to. Because it is the third parties (websites) which are responsible for the contents," he said.
The issuance of summons to Google India reflected lack of understanding on the part of trial judge as to how the system (internet) functions, he said.
"It's not the case of anybody that the alleged contents were good or bad. Of course, they were terrible but there are practical diificulties (in checking them). The persons responsible for all the contents have not been made parties.
"We are seeking to prosecute the websites which have done a great service to the world. This problem has arisen world wide in various forms and it is not that we in India are faced with such problems," he said.
However, Vinay Rai, who had filed the complaint against 21 websites, opposed the plea of Google India.
"Google India, like its holding firm Google Inc, is also a search engine and in fact, they are same as out of 1,91, 295 shares of Google India, 1,91, 294 shares are being held by its holding company," the counsel for Rai said.
评论：
- Rammohan
Internet users should protest against the move - to Government on par with Annas movement as it is a attempt to cripple the right of freedom of expression, and example has been given by Mr. Kaul already how a word by itself can block every thing. People at large should send protest note to Government using mail facility. The government should bear in mind that election is fast approaching and the attempt is to block the voice of the youth indirectly.
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corrupt congress party
instead of controlling the in flow of the information why the courts dont do one honorable thing -----send this crooked italian -gandhis and the italian miad out of the country ,the only source of corruption.
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VijayShah
GOOGLE is right. Information flow cannot be blocked. It is even foolish to think this way. Even the most totalitarian regimes cannot stop the information flow. Always one can zip with password and mask and send whatever you want to convey.
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Krishnakant Chaubey699
I perfectly agree with you,if it is blocked it will backfire and self suicidal and mass upsurge against judiciary.
Indian
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Practical
Companies like Google and Facebook have revolutionized communications for human beings in amazing ways. It would be a shame if the actions of a few troublemakers result in the penalizing of the millions of netizens and their quest for knowledge and the progress of our nation into the 21st century and into the developed world.
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