Information Society Watch

October 14, 2007, Rishi Jaitly, Google Public Policy Blog

The author examines the issue of intermediary liability in the Internet world and presents his viewpoint on the Government of India's take on the same. Internet content reaches the end consumer through a variety of intermediaries such as ISPs, search engines, email services etc.

October 17, 2007, Manoj Mitta, The Times of India

The parliamentary standing committee in India is trying to increase liability of Internet service providers (ISPs) responsible for third party content, a move that would effectively 'kill' the Internet, since 85% of the Internet deals with third party content, including search engines, email, blogs, and community sites. The article claims that such legislation, in contrast to Internet laws of advanced countries, is the result of committee's failure to understand the Internet.