Is pressure on Google, FB govt’s covert op to counter Anna effect?

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Akash Deep Ashok | January 17, 2012



Google India and Facebook have sought to invoke the right to freedom of speech and expression before the Delhi high court and contended that a casual approach by a magisterial court had unjustifiably put them in the dock. The magistrate had on December 23 issued summons to 21 websites for allegedly committing offences of criminal conspiracy, sale of obscene books and sale of obscene objects to young persons.

Sometime ago, the telecom regulatory authority of India (Trai) had put a firm foot down on the bulk SMSes, a move which seemed to have been taken in the aftermath of the India Against Corruption’s mass mobilisation through SMSes and the social networking sites.

Are these moves part of the UPA government’s covert operation to counter the Anna Hazare effect?

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