{"id":30713,"date":"2012-02-07T18:59:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T18:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/facebook_google_remove_religiously_offensive_content_after_court_warning\/"},"modified":"2012-02-07T18:59:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T18:59:19","slug":"facebook_google_remove_religiously_offensive_content_after_court_warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30713","title":{"rendered":"Facebook, Google remove &#34;religiously offensive&#34; content after court warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet giants Google Inc (GOOG.O) and Facebook removed content from some Indian domain websites on Monday following a court directive warning them of a crackdown &#8220;like China&#8221; if they did not take steps to protect religious sensibilities.<\/p>\n<p>The two are among 21 companies ordered to develop a mechanism to block material considered religiously offensive after private petitioners took them to court over images deemed offensive to Hindus, Muslims and Christians.<\/p>\n<p>Two cases have been brought by individuals against internet companies in India, stoking fears about censorship in the world&#8217;s largest democracy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/02\/06\/india-internet-idINDEE8150AP20120206\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet giants Google Inc (GOOG.O) and Facebook removed content from some Indian domain websites on Monday following a court directive warning them of a crackdown &#8220;like China&#8221; if they did not take steps to protect religious sensibilities. The two are<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30713\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,201,94,589,149,481,108,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-blogging-the-internet","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-india","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}