India amends it's cyber laws / IT Law
The recent update of Indian IT law contained massive amendments aimed at tightening the cyber security.Though initial reaction to the law was cold soon it sparked hot debates on the topic.
According to the latest revision , any content found "objectionable" is subjected to immediate removal. List of objectionable content covers anything that "threatens the unity, integrity, defense, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign states or public order."
Indian constitution allows "reasonable restrictions" on free speech but lawmakers have periodically stretched that definition to ban books, movies and other material about sensitive subjects like sex, politics and religion.
The law also states that, the internet "intermediaries" including the sites like orkut, Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube and other websites should respond to any demand to take down the offensive content within 36 hours. The law doesn't give any chance to the publishers to defend their content.
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