Court polices anti-religious content on social networks

Social networking sites operational in the country have been, off late, bearing the brunt of a double-edged sword.

December 22, 2011 / 12:20 IST

Social networking sites operational in the country have been, off late, bearing the brunt of a double-edged sword. It all began with a spate of defamatory comments on the nation's top leaders on Facebook, which earned it the ire of the IT and Communications Minister, Kapil Sibal. Now, however, a certain Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi has taken a dislike to the content posted on social networking sites like Facebook, Google, Orkut, YouTube. Qasmi then approached the civil court to file a suit.

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first published: Dec 22, 2011 12:12 pm

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