. . . huh, that is interesting. I wonder if India is also pushing these countries to hire millions and millions of Indians to screen the content as well, considering that they won't allow technology to do it.

Maybe this is just the plan for future jobs in India.

Congress Party's president, Sonia Gandhi is a dickwig.

Take that India.

FTFA: At the meeting, Mr. Sibal showed attendees a Facebook page that maligned the Congress Party's president, Sonia Gandhi. "This is unacceptable," he told attendees, the executive said, and he asked them to find a way to monitor what is posted on their sites.

I suspect that the real interest is in preventing the people from saying bad things about the government and it's minions. Screw the masses.

Oppressive government is oppressive.

Can you imagine what Fark would look like if someone had to sit through and remove all disparaging comments about politicians?

Hey Indian politicians, get over yourself.

dwarven politics

Has anyone asked Mr. Sibal if he might be open to the alternate solution of going out and farking himself?

Facebook and Google might do it. They'll happily bend over and restrict content for China.

GAT_00: Facebook and Google might do it. They'll happily bend over and restrict content for China.

But they just restrict what those governments tell them to restrict. They don't hire human beings to read every comment on youtube and fb. This guy is just clueless about how the internet works.

How about this: When you sign up for Google, Facebook, or Twitter, if you select "India" as the country in which you live, it will not allow you to have an account.

Problem solved.

/not really, BUT it would be an easy solution, and the providers could say that they did their part

Grables'Daughter: How about this: When you sign up for Google, Facebook, or Twitter, if you select "India" as the country in which you live, it will not allow you to have an account.

Problem solved.

/not really, BUT it would be an easy solution, and the providers could say that they did their part

I think that solution might have very unpleasant consequences for the current regime.

quickdraw: Grables'Daughter: How about this: When you sign up for Google, Facebook, or Twitter, if you select "India" as the country in which you live, it will not allow you to have an account.

Problem solved.

/not really, BUT it would be an easy solution, and the providers could say that they did their part

I think that solution might have very unpleasant consequences for the current regime.

Sure, but that's not Facebook/Google/Twitters problem.

Grables'Daughter: quickdraw: Grables'Daughter: How about this: When you sign up for Google, Facebook, or Twitter, if you select "India" as the country in which you live, it will not allow you to have an account.

Problem solved.

/not really, BUT it would be an easy solution, and the providers could say that they did their part

I think that solution might have very unpleasant consequences for the current regime.

Sure, but that's not Facebook/Google/Twitters problem.

It would solve the problem, albeit a "this is why we can't have nice things" solution.

How about they make Mr Sibal do it all himself. I like teachable moments.

quickdraw: They don't hire human beings to read every comment on youtube and fb

Wait, that's what this guy wants? I figured he just meant screening by keyword.

At the meeting, Mr. Sibal showed attendees a Facebook page that maligned the Congress Party's president, Sonia Gandhi. "This is unacceptable," he told attendees, the executive said, and he asked them to find a way to monitor what is posted on their sites.

Haha, this guy is a dumbass. WAAH someone is mean to us online!

I wonder if he thinks the Internet is also a series of tubes.

croesius: Wait...what percentage of the 1 billion people there have electricity, much less the goddamn internet. First thing I came to was a site purporting "But the sorrowful fact is only 5.3% of people in India use internet."

How about this version:
" India, a country with an internet population of 53 million, asks Google, Facebook and Twitter to screen all of the content posted to their sites. Yes, all of it. No really, they're serious"


Still ridiculous for them to want, but not quite as drastic as a billion

I read that there are 25 million Facebook users in India, and 100 million Google users. So it's a small fraction of the whole population, actually.

Grables'Daughter: Grables'Daughter: quickdraw: Grables'Daughter: How about this: When you sign up for Google, Facebook, or Twitter, if you select "India" as the country in which you live, it will not allow you to have an account.

Problem solved.

/not really, BUT it would be an easy solution, and the providers could say that they did their part

I think that solution might have very unpleasant consequences for the current regime.

Sure, but that's not Facebook/Google/Twitters problem.

It would solve the problem, albeit a "this is why we can't have nice things" solution.

What I'm getting at is that draconian measure like this are not going to help the current regime's PR. Really I hope the regime gets all hardliney about this. I don't think they have thought their cunning plan through.

cameroncrazy1984: How about they make Mr Sibal do it all himself. I like teachable moments.

bwahahaha

hmmmm
they should send an email to him asking his advice on each edit before they make it.
"is this ok?"
"should we change this?"

after sending him a billion email requests, they can sit back and watch his head explode.

/freedom of speech is so confusing to people.
/I HATE the HATERS, but I will fight to the death for them to maintain their right to post anything that they want. ANYTHING.
/Dont like what they are saying? ignore them, change your privacy setting, stop going to midget porn sites.

This guy should also ask all of the paper manufacturers and card stock manufacturers in India to start screening all printed material, removing all published comments that disparage members of the government.

namatad: stop going to midget porn sites.

Whoa there, let's not get crazy about it.

James!: Congress Party's president, Sonia Gandhi is a dickwig.

Take that India.

Dickwig, indeed.

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