NEW DELHI: India has urged social network companies including Facebook, Twitter and Google to remove offensive material, unleashing a storm of criticism from Internet users complaining of censorship in the world’s largest democracy.
Telecoms and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal met executives from Facebook, Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft on Monday to ask them to screen content, but no agreement with the companies was reached, he said.
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