Govt asked social networking sites to block 1,208 URLs in 2013
Written By Admin on 12 December 2013 | Thursday, December 12, 2013
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| Government has so far this year asked social networking sites to block 1,208 web addresses, or uniform resource locater (URLs). |
NEW
DELHI: Government has
so far this year asked social networking sites to block 1,208 web
addresses,
or uniform resource locater (URLs), Parliament was informed today.
"Social networking sites were requested to
block 8, 21,352 and 1,208 URLs during 2010, 2011,
2012 and 2013, respectively to comply with the court orders," he
added.
That apart, 362, URLs were blocked in 2012, of
which 312 URLs were blocked in a single instance at the time of exodus of North
East people from different parts of the country, the Minister said.
A total of 62 URLs have been blocked so far
during the current year, Sibal added.
"The web pages were hosting objectionable
information and had the potential to disturb the public order in the country and
blocked for access to public in the country on the request of law enforcement
agencies," he said.
Indian Computer Emergency Response Team ( CERT-In) gets
requests for blocking of objectionable content from individuals and
organisations, which it forwards to the social networking sites for appropriate
action, Sibal said.
Section 69A of the IT Act, 2000 empowers government to block any
information generated, transmitted, received, stored or hosted in any computer
resource in interest of sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India,
security of the state,
friendly relations with foreign states or public order or for preventing
incitement to the commission of any cognisable offence relating to the above, he
added.
"There is no institutional monitoring mechanism
for monitoring social networking sites. At present, law enforcement and
intelligence/security agencies make searches on the Internet on specific case-to-case basis,"
he said.
Source
: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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