Google and Yahoo, to screen user content sourced from the country in order to prevent any "disparaging, inflammatory or defamatory" matter from getting published. Addressing a press conference in the capital today, union minister of communications and information technology Kapil Sibal said the government is in the process of formulating stringent guidelines to regulate content on social |
networking sites. He said the regulations would also provide for penalties on publishers if they fail to remove the ''objectionable'' content immediately after getting a complaint. The government, in the meantime, has asked the social networks to develop their own tools to purge such ''objectionable'' content, he said. domain-b.com : Sibal vows regulation to prevent websites from publishing 'objectionable' content
