[Assam] PIL against India baiters - HT

[Ram Sarangapani]

I am sure we can find some netters who might want to join the "We hate
India" campaign :)
While the "We hate India" one is mostly made of Pakistanis, we can surely
find some Indians or ex-Indians to join the fray :)

--Ram
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*KS Manojkumar

*Aurangabad, October 10, 2006

The Bombay High Court's Aurangabad bench has served a notice on Google for
allowing a hate campaign against India on its social-networking site
orkut.com.

The order was issued on Monday in response to a public-interest petition
filed by Yugant Marlapalle, an advocate in Aurangabad. Google has six weeks
to respond. The petition said a community called 'We Hate India' — full of
anti-India propaganda and with a picture of the Tricolour being burnt — has
been created on Orkut. It sought the removal of the community from the site.

The 'We Hate India' group currently has 103 members, almost all of whom are
from Pakistan. The site's creator calls himself Miraslov Stankovic and
claims he is based in Russia. His other Orkut communities include "Israel
Must be Destroyed" and "I Hate Himesh Reshammiya".

Google's India spokeswoman Roli Aggarwal said she was aware of the case but
declined to comment, saying the response would have to come from the US
where Orkut was based.

Supreme Court lawyer Pavan Duggal said Google would be treated as a
network-service provider under Indian law. If the site could be viewed and
used in India, the country had a legitimate interest in its contents, he
said.

Orkut also has 10 communities called "We hate Pakistan", most of whose
members are Indians. "It is part of the war between India and Pakistan in
cyberspace," said cyber security analyst Subimal Bhattacharjee.

Orkut's terms of service says it may, but shall have no obligation to,
remove materials that it determines in its sole discretion are unlawful and
objectionable.

*(With inputs from Samrat in Mumbai*
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