Kolkata, Jan 29: Supporting the internet giants like Google and Facebook, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has said that internet is so far away from us to expect to censor it.
According to Omar, he does not agree with this whole thing about Google and Facebook being called to censor everything.
Omar was in Kolkata to participate in a discussion at the Kolkata Literary Meet. He said that he too has faced ‘mindless abuse’ by unidentified people on his Twitter account.
 The CM favored self-regulation in the social media, saying it is impossible to censor everything in the web.
 Omar said, “Some amount of self-regulation is needed in the social media where you get the worst kind of abuses by anonymous people.”
 Over the voices rose to keep a check on the content which has been published on the social networking sites, a Delhi trial court asked several sites including, Facebook, Youtube and Google to delete the ‘anti religious’ or ‘anti social’ content which promotes hatred or communal harmony.
 The court has summoned the executives of these companies to appear in person on March 13 in connection to the case.

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