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Content screening: Facebook, others to reply in 15 days
Tuesday February 07, 2012 08:41:23 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
A Delhi court here Monday directed Facebook, Yahoo, Google and
other websites to file written statements within 15 days on
removing objectionable content from their sites after the Google
informed it that it has removed some pages.
Administrative Civil Judge Praveen Singh warned the social
networking sites against displaying objectionable content on their
web pages.
The court said the websites had a duty to follow its order to
remove defamatory articles.
"Defendants must file a written statement within 15 days," said
the court and listed the matter for March 1.
The court was hearing a petition moved by Mufti Aijaz Arshad
Quasmi, an Islamic researcher running NGO Peace Foundation, who
sought removal of objectionable content from websites.
Google submitted a compliance report in court, saying that it had
removed certain defamatory pages from its sites.
"The step is in accordance with Google's long standing policy of
responding to the court's order," Google's spokesperson told IANS.
Facebook India submitted an affidavit of compliance report, saying
that the alleged content had not been downloaded from its sites.
"The images and videos do not contain any URL (uniform resource
locator) to indicate that the source of the downloaded material is
Facebook.com," said Facebook India in its report.
It added that Facebook India did not control or operate the
servers that host the websites available at facebook.com, which
are located in the US.
The company moved an application for seeking deletion of its name
from the list of parties in the present suit.
Microsoft and Yahoo India also told court that there was no cause
of action against them in the matter. Yahoo India moved an
application for striking out its name from the case.
"It is humbly submitted that the plaintiff discloses no cause of
action against the defendant (Yahoo) in as much as the plaintiff
has nowhere averred that any such alleged offensive material was
present or hosted by the denfadant nor annexed any documents to
show that any offensive material was present on the websites,"
Yahoo said in its application.
Appearing for Qasim, advocate Santosh Pandey supplied documents to
the six companies after the court's direction.
Qasim alleged that around 20 websites were showing defamatory
articles. He requested the court to take action against them and
direct them to remove the objectionable contents.
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