New Delhi, Feb. 1: The Supreme Court today directed Internet search engines Google, Microsoft and Yahoo and social media sites Facebook and WhatsApp to develop a "firewall" of the kind evolved in China to prevent by default the uploading of offensive material, like rape and gang-rape videos. Lalit wondered why the IT giants were shying away from developing such a mechanism when China had managed to do so. The counsel of NGO Prajwala, which drew the court's attention to the uploading of gang-rape videos on Yahoo and WhatsApp, told the courtthe mechanism developed by China was called the "Great Firewall of China". "If China can evolve such a technology why can't you?" the bench asked the counsels appearing for the search engines.

Source: The Telegraph February 01, 2017 22:18 UTC