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Indian Court Orders YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to Block “Defamatory” Video Worldwide

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday November 09 2019, @12:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the or-what? dept.

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Indian court orders YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to block "defamatory" video worldwide

When the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that European courts can order Facebook to takedown content globally, if it's deemed to be illegal in Europe, Facebook warned that the ruling "undermines the long-standing principle that one country does not have the right to impose its laws on another country." Now Facebook's warning is manifesting outside of Europe with an Indian court recently ruling that YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter must block a video globally because it's deemed to be "defamatory" by the court.

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  • (Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Saturday November 09 2019, @11:00PM

    by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Saturday November 09 2019, @11:00PM (#918427)

    In this case Indian courts are taking a company with Indian operations and telling it what it can or can not do elsewhere. No international treaties involved (actually there probably are, who knows.) It sucks, but they can do it if you want to have Indian operations or protect Indian assets or market.

    Maybe this should be a warning to those invested or planning to invest in India. There's a price to pay for that cheap labor.

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