Google faces defamation lawsuit in India
Posted on August 15, 2008
Bloggers who were being detained for their criticism to some individuals in the establishment in undemocratic countries such as in China and Egypt are common phenomena. But it’s really a big news when a blogger posting makes someone angry in a democratic country. We in Indonesia used to face such experience when an Indonesian blogger investigated by police for allegedly “insulting” President Yudhoyono. Similar case seems happening now in India, the largest democratic country in the world, in which Google who owns Blogger.com are forced to disclose the identity of a particular blogger and take down his blog.
Google Inc India subsidiary is being sued for alleged defamation in the Bombay High Court by an Indian construction equipment company, The Wall Street Journal said.
Mumbai-based Gremach Infrastructure Equipments & Projects Ltd is demanding that Google disclose the name of a person who criticized it using Google’s blogging service, the paper said.
A blogger using the name “Toxic Writer” criticized the company on blogger.com, a site that allows individuals to create blogs without publicly revealing their identities, the paper said.
The Journal said the Bombay High Court ordered the blog taken down on Feb 26.[...]
I hope such cases will never happen in Indonesia.
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hmmm…
i hope it mean that we have many better blogger than india
ow- ow…..why india’s.
Indonesia have many blogger.
the information u r giving is misleading.. there is no such news here in India. please take a look at the source before publishing any kind of wrong news
Go googling and search using phrase like * Google faces defamation lawsuit in India * you’d find all international news reported it. where do you stay anyway?
I hope it’s not a big “file” to invertigate..
oh….when my country
I think that makes us really carefull on critisizing an established institution or company. Wrong word can make the blogger a sitting duck
ada-ada aja nih, mudah-mudahan ladang nyari uang lewat blog ga terganggu karena hal2 kaya gini…
be careful. blogging doesn’t mean 100% free to write anything.
HMMM great info
But I thought it would not be if we had good critism and not a fitnah.
Yes we have freedom in blogging but our freedom is not to dispute others freedom
freedom in blogging not same in world