The Indian government's relentless pursuit to ban technology continued when they sided with the Delhi High Court's judgement to hold Facebook, Google and a bunch of other companies liable for obscene content uploaded by users. My colleague Emil Protalinski covered the story on ZDNet's Friending Facebook blog. Responding to a complaint against the companies, a High Court judge threatened to ban social media websites "like in China."
Earlier today India's most social web savvy parliamentarian, Shashi Tharoor made a very intriguing comment on the whole issue. He sent out the following tweet:
Here's why the tweet above is interesting:
Will the courts go after the carriers or OEMs if the phones are used to transmit and access content that they want Indians to not see?