India censors gender selection ads
The Supreme Court of India ordered the major search engines to stop showing ads for sites offering to allow parents to select the sex of their children:
It was another Indian law, though, which was brought to bear against the big search engine three: namely the Information Technology Act 2000. An Act which Google has had cause to complain about in the past, as both Orkut and YouTube have been sued for copyright violations and objectionable content under it.
In India, there is no escape clause for Internet Service Providers, Search Engines, Social Networks or Web Hosts under the law when it comes to responsibility for published content.
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Amendments to Section 79 of the Act are quite clear about that, the only exception being if it can be proven there was no knowledge of the offensive content or it had been published despite every effort being made to stop it.
From ITWire
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