Governance on auto-pilot

The move comes within a week of Kapil Sibal asking social networking sites like Facebook, Google to take off offensive material, raging controversy

Here is the text of his controversial guidelines on web content pre-screening

The minister has aimed the gun at easy target, the intermediary, whereas the right place to fire is individual culprits

Says content on internet could promote religious hatred

The minister has aimed the gun at easy target, the intermediary, whereas the right place to fire is individual culprits

Kapil Sibal wants to clean up the cyberspace. No offensive content please, we are Indians. He says content providers should take note of Indian sensibilities. However, it seems the...

Although BJP is against posting material hurting religious sentiments, it said any move to regulate social networking sites should be made after taking the view of Parliament

Personalities like Rajeev Chandrashekhar, Shobhaa De, Shekhar Kapur expressed displeasure over Sibal's statement on moves to eliminate offensive content from the web

The government met Google, Microsoft, Facebook officials last few weeks after offensive materials against Congress leader Sonia Gandhi were put on the web