Google Quietly Protests Internet Censorship in India

Google is taking issue with India’s new Internet regulations, according to a recently obtained memo.

The rules, enacted last month, require that websites remove all objectionable material, including anything “grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous,” “ethnically objectionable,” “disparaging” or that impersonates another person. Internet service providers and social networks are required to bar certain kinds of content in their terms of service contracts with users, and websites must remove within 36 hours all content that authorities identify as objectionable.