We cannot do what the Judge is asking Google, et al., to do. It’s tempting to suggest tech awareness classes for judges, but perhaps the more effective will be common sense classes:
This week, a judge in New Delhi raised eyebrows when he said, according to a widely cited report by the Press Trust of India, that “like China,” India might be compelled to block certain Web sites that contained obscene or offensive material. The comments of the judge, Suresh Kait, came in response to a lawsuit, filed by a private citizen in the capital, New Delhi. The suit demands that Internet companies screen content before it is posted on sites like Facebook, Google or Yahoo, that might offend the religious sentiments of Indians. A related criminal case accuses the companies — 21 in all — of violating an Indian law that applies to books, pamphlets and other material that is deemed to “deprave or corrupt.”
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