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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.
August 15, 2008 at 4:24 pm
hmmm…
August 15, 2008 at 10:08 pm
i hope it mean that we have many better blogger than india
August 16, 2008 at 3:45 am
ow- ow…..why india’s.
Indonesia have many blogger.
August 17, 2008 at 1:13 am
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
August 17, 2008 at 1:43 am
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?
August 19, 2008 at 8:57 am
I hope it’s not a big “file” to invertigate..
August 20, 2008 at 12:08 am
oh….when my country
August 20, 2008 at 4:26 am
I think that makes us really carefull on critisizing an established institution or company. Wrong word can make the blogger a sitting duck
August 24, 2008 at 7:47 am
ada-ada aja nih, mudah-mudahan ladang nyari uang lewat blog ga terganggu karena hal2 kaya gini…
August 26, 2008 at 3:27 pm
be careful. blogging doesn’t mean 100% free to write anything.
September 3, 2008 at 10:48 am
HMMM great info
September 4, 2008 at 5:21 pm
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
October 5, 2008 at 4:42 am
freedom in blogging not same in world
October 7, 2009 at 7:16 am
It is impolite if we make someone uncomfortable because of whatever we said about this person. We certainly have to apologize to the person. Actually we may criticize others if we find that they have to make some changes for good reasons. In this case, however, we should mention our critics objectively and politely.