The government in India has asked social networking sites such as Facebook to prescreen all user content and remove “disparaging, inflammatory or defamatory content” before it gets posted.
There have been several posts on social media cites that are considered “unacceptable” to the indian government. These pages are posting things that are talking about the president in a negative context. The president is wanting there to be a screening process to monitor what is being put into the public mind about him and his political party. He was expecting them to use humans to monitor the cites and no a form of technology screening.
The three companies that the indian government have approached about the problem with content going up onto their websites, are prepared to tell the indian government that based on how much content is user generated in today’s society there is no real way to monitor everything that gets posted.
This is becoming a problem for many other governments. Content control is nearly impossible to keep under control with the use of social networking tools in today’s society.
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