Kapil Sibal warns social websites over objectionable content

    

              Telecoms and information technology minister Kapil Sibal took strong exception to the uploading of disparaging and defamatory content,on some social networking sites, and asked these websites to remove all such content or face action. Mr. Sibal, who met senior functionaries of these websites, including those from Facebook, Google, YouTube and Yahoo, asked them to evolve a mechanism to filter such “inflammatory” and “defamatory” content that could create social tension.

                        India today has over 10-crore Internet users, third largest in the world after China and the U.S. India also has over 2.8-crore Facebook users and is the fifth largest Facebook user base in the world.