The names of 309 URLs that Indian government wanted banned in the wake of Assam riots was allegedly leaked on the internet on Wednesday. The list was dominated by Facebook and Youtube, Google's portal for sharing videos.
Indian government allegedly found 102 URLs on Facebook and 85 URLs on YouTube where communally sensitive content was posted. Both Facebook and Google said on Wednesday that they were working with Indian government to remove illegal content.
Though sources at Google said that they may not remove all posts and videos from its websites. An official said that Google would carefully determine content hosted at each URL and remove it only if the company found it illegal.
According to a blog post at the website of Centre for Internet and Society, the non-profit organization that leaked the list, almost "all of the blocked items have content (images, videos, writings) that are related to communal issues and rioting".
At the same time, Pranesh Paraksh, a CIS official, note on the blog that it was unclear if the government exercised its powers responsibly in this case. "The blocking of many of the items on the list are legally questionable and morally indefensible, even while a large number of the items ought to be removed," he wrote.
According to the leaked list, Indian government also wanted to block 30 Twitter URLs, 3 Wikipedia URLs, 11 Blogger URLs and 8 Wordpress URLs.
There were also some URLs belonging to a few websites that are sympathetic to Hindu and Muslim extremists. Surprisingly, the list also contained URLs belonging to several mainstream media websites though it was not clear if it was due to user-generated content like comments or due to news reports.
Indian government allegedly found 102 URLs on Facebook and 85 URLs on YouTube where communally sensitive content was posted. Both Facebook and Google said on Wednesday that they were working with Indian government to remove illegal content.
Though sources at Google said that they may not remove all posts and videos from its websites. An official said that Google would carefully determine content hosted at each URL and remove it only if the company found it illegal.
According to a blog post at the website of Centre for Internet and Society, the non-profit organization that leaked the list, almost "all of the blocked items have content (images, videos, writings) that are related to communal issues and rioting".
At the same time, Pranesh Paraksh, a CIS official, note on the blog that it was unclear if the government exercised its powers responsibly in this case. "The blocking of many of the items on the list are legally questionable and morally indefensible, even while a large number of the items ought to be removed," he wrote.
According to the leaked list, Indian government also wanted to block 30 Twitter URLs, 3 Wikipedia URLs, 11 Blogger URLs and 8 Wordpress URLs.
There were also some URLs belonging to a few websites that are sympathetic to Hindu and Muslim extremists. Surprisingly, the list also contained URLs belonging to several mainstream media websites though it was not clear if it was due to user-generated content like comments or due to news reports.
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