When Shahana Nair Joshi, a young professional from Delhi, wrote a blog post titled ‘An Open Letter to a Delhi Boy’ last year, she was not prepared for the repercussions that followed. The post went viral overnight and received as many as 7,000 comments. Her blog post, which was a rant against the stereotypical Delhi…
Kapil Sibal’s suggestion to social media websites to filter “objectionable content” has drawn many charges, one of them is sycophancy. “It is part of the Congress’ megalomania to not allow any criticism. It is sycophantic, stupid and it’s his way of currying favour with the power centre in the party,” rued Dr Aditya Nigam, of…
Union telecom minister Kapil Sibal’s proposal to monitorwebsites to weed out “objectionable” content has notgone down well with the residents of the state capital.The Telegraph spoke to a large number of people from different walks of life but could not find anyone who agreed with Sibal’s opinion. Everyone slammed the Union minister and said the…
24 Jun 2011- Hindustan Times Shooting the messenger, eh? Can you sue a search engine? That’s the question on everyone’s mind ever since Delhi-based business bigwig and filmmaker Arindam Chaudhuri filed a lawsuit of Rs 50 crore against Google and three other publications. According to Chaudhuri, Google has been “publishing, distributing… the defamat ory libelous…
In New Dehli, Arindam Chaudhuri filed a major lawsuit against Google and several other sites for publishing and distributing “defamatory, libelous, and slanderous articles.” His action created a maelstrom of debate on whether or not aggregation websites, including search engines, can be held responsible for showing libelous information created by other groups. Karnika Seth, an expert in cyber law who…