An Orkut Community Puts Google India in Trouble

[freakitude]

Orkut, one of the most popular social networking website in India, could put Google in some legal trouble soon for a particular orkut community [screenshot below]




The Orkut group in question (We hate India) , which has 100+ members mostly from Pakistan, shows a bunch of people burning the Indian Flag, something that has been taken very seriously an Indian court.

Since Orkut is owned by Google, the court has asked the state government to issue a notice to Google for alleged spread of hatred about India. The case is likely to come up next month.

Originally Posted by Deep

Orkut or google should have a representative in each country handling these kind of stuff and these kind of things should be stopped immidiately after creation.

Totally agree....

Source: DI

[Third Eye]

I saw this news on tv channels.
Orkut must be stopped...............

[47shailesh]

orkut is supported by google not owned by it... Orkut was created by orkut working in google by utilising 80-20 rule in google so its not google who is solely responsible....BUT stil the matter is serious...

[spiderman]

i think there is no use of orkut community. it is of total waste of time. only some idle brain users who don't know the real use of internet go to such idle sites

[hemant_mathur]

That community has been there for some time now .. i get so many msgs and email urging to report that community as bogus (which i have, sso have numerous other people) but nothing has been done so far.

[ruthless]

India is the Best

[56561]

there r many kinds of Hater Group mostly in US and Europe . in the broad sense 'we hate india ' is also a hater group and nothing else . go to California Association for Human Relations Organizations (CAHRO) 's site and u will get a lot info about these kind of groups . I will see how an indian court handle this as hater's r legal in some part of the planet . good good good .

[king007]

I posted about this community on this forum some days back so that all members can report it as bogus, but with no intimation from modz/admin my post was deleted??? Can some mod respond why it was deleted???

Google requires atleast 1000 people reporting it as "Bogus" then they remove the particular community...

Good that some good person filed a PIL and the Court has issued an order to the Govt. Hope the Govt takes tough action against Google to make sure that they delete all such commnunities which spread hatred towards India.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...ow/2136967.cms

[satyamy]

Only thing to stop this is "Report these Community Abuse"

[ramu]

Why dont we start a community something like...
" Pakistan ki G*nd Maro " or Pakistan g*ndu"

[iMav]

orkut band karo ... orkut hai hai.... orkut nahi chahiye .... orkut hatao .... orkut band karo ... pakistan and orkut !@#$%&***((&$#%

[xenkatesh]

so sad people using communites for these purposes..

[quote]
Google requires atleast 1000 people reporting it as "Bogus" then they remove the particular community... [\quote]

dude.. we are 15,704 out of that atleast 20% ppl whil have orkut account.. believe me.. we call together can report abt that community and lets see what happens.. what do you say guys??

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by mAV3

orkut band karo ... orkut hai hai.... orkut nahi chahiye .... orkut hatao .... orkut band karo ... pakistan and orkut !@#$%&***((&$#%

Guys,
1stly I dont understand hw does orkut turn out to be the evil out here.If there's a hate community the community is generally deleted with a few days of forming it.

2ndly I love my country but I being an old orkut user wud like to point out that this is nothing but stupid propoganda.There are probably as many hate groups created by people not only Indians against Pakistan as well.

3rdly if some of u have never had a chance to be in orkut or if some of u guys have no friends(i mean loners) unlike me then may be orkut might seem stupid to u.But for a guy like me who has frnds and relatives all around the world orkut is one of the best means for me to keep in touch with them and make the world a much smaller place.

4thly I have always found orkut to be a useful tool to keep in touch with my frnds and relatives and have never found myself interested in any such nuisance as stupid "hate groups" and by the way the community probably has been deleted by now.
***No offence guys nothing personal.....just that I love orkut and think it was created with very beautiful idea of linking frnds not in touch and bringing like minded people close***

[king007]

Originally Posted by ramu

Why dont we start a community something like...
" Pakistan ki G*nd Maro " or Pakistan g*ndu"

Then what would be the difference be between us and them. Just because they do Cheap things does not mean we follow them.

I donno why I feel that this community is not being removed by Orkut as I am damn sure that it was reported as "Bogus" more than 1000 times as its been around for quite sometime now, I myself reported it atleast 15 days back. Govt has to pressurise google to take it offline asp...

Some MOD plz answer to the question asked by me in post #9 of this thread.

[Third Eye]

Originally Posted by mAV3

orkut band karo ... orkut hai hai.... orkut nahi chahiye .... orkut hatao .... orkut band karo ... pakistan and orkut !@#$%&***((&$#%

Totally agree with you man !

[sysfilez]

orkut is all scrap and spam. ppl who orkut are sick dumb ass.

[satyamy]

Just Read today's Hindustan Times Front Page (Bottom)
That's Good

[Vyasram]

there are hundreds of sites/communities which wud be spreading hatred abt india or any other country , and everyone has the right to express themselves , u beleive them - believe them, else - ignore them. simple as that.

[JGuru]

I think Google should maintain proper Code of Conduct for it's ORKUT members.
Google has already received a order from Federal court to disclose names,
personal data & IP addresses of the cetain members who are misusing ORKUT
with racism, child-pornography etc., Surely this is not the proper way to admininster ORKUT!!!

[Kiran.dks]

Considering such a sensitive issue, Orkut should have removed that group just like our moderators do in this forum. Are the moderators sleeping in orkut? Also Orkut is flooded with Nudity. Since it has been long time around with no actions taken...I think there is enough reason to be banned.

[[ashX]]

Orkut has its OWN Rights with which it can stop or remove that like threads.

STOP IT! :-< STOP IT! :-< STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT!

[led_shankar]

I believe that Nazi communities on Orkut were banned after complaints in France and Germany; Something similar could be done here. Though I would not blame Orkut for this. As it is, freenet is used most effectively for 'hate' purposes. And try banning things on freenet!

[sysfilez]

Originally Posted by Vyasram

there are hundreds of sites/communities which wud be spreading hatred abt india or any other country , and everyone has the right to express themselves , u beleive them - believe them, else - ignore them. simple as that.

freedom of expression as u might put it. just ignore them.

check here rules of orkut for uploading a photo:

You can upload a JPG, GIF, or PNG file. (Maximum size of 500KB) Do not upload photos containing children, pets, cartoons, celebrities, nudity, artwork or copyrighted images.

and here is orkut terms and conditions:

In addition to illegal content, we may also remove content that violates our Terms of Service such as hate speech, violence, and commercial activity.

there can be seen many profile violating these terms and conditions, orkut does not remove them despite of reporting. so, orkut does not impliment its rules, which says:

When you click this button and tell us why you think the page should be removed, we receive a notification. If there is illegal content, we may immediately remove it and report the content to the appropriate authorities if necessary.

^ in practice orkut has no control over these activities, if they cant maintain it they should shut it down. or orkut should develop a system to impliment their rules.

[Third Eye]

Orkut consists of warezs,cracks,spam.etc so stop orkut ! stop orkut !
Orkut is the worst thing of google.

[Ankur Gupta]

i had received an fwd message abt this community and asking to report it as bogus...this ws abt a month back...i wonder hw cum 1000 boguses have not been reported till now...

[Kiran.dks]

Originally Posted by sariq

check here rules of orkut for uploading a photo:

and here is orkut terms and conditions:

there can be seen many profile violating these terms and conditions, orkut does not remove them despite of reporting. so, orkut does not impliment its rules, which says:


^ in practice orkut has no control over these activities, if they cant maintain it they should shut it down. or orkut should develop a system to impliment their rules.

Good compilation Sariq.
All the 'so-called' supporters of Orkut, DO READ THIS CAREFULLY.
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Originally Posted by sysfilez

freedom of expression as u might put it. just ignore them.

What kind of freedom of expression are you speaking about? Harassment? Nudity? Huh! There is a limit to everything. Orkut is a place for communities. So some moderation is essential. Upon report of such anti-country communities by some countries, those were removed. Now if India is doing that, some people are called it as freedom of expression? Terrible!

[iMav]

i hope orkut is legally sued .... it is not only india .... 2moro some 1 might start an anti-pak community or anti-america (anti-bush will be a run-away success) ..... this is a global issue such things should not be allowed ...

[dheeruymv1212]

This problem must be solved by just removing that community which totally in abuse.............................uuuuuuuuuuuuuu delete the community......?????

[47shailesh]

Originally Posted by Vyasram

there are hundreds of sites/communities which wud be spreading hatred abt india or any other country , and everyone has the right to express themselves , u beleive them - believe them, else - ignore them. simple as that.

but difference is in the media others use to do that suppose someone abuse ur family on some HIFIVE omunnity it does'nt matters to u but if someone does so by calliing u on ur mobile that does matter....orkut is same case accessible and reachable to aall.....