More Orkut Legal Concerns For Google

Orkut is becoming quite a problem child for Google. Now that things have finally begun to calm down from its legal battle in Brazil, similar issues are cropping up in India. This new issue involves hate speech, while the Brazilian dispute involved both hate speech and child pornography. Company execs still aren't likely to label this as "progress," though.

The Times of India, "the Aurangabad bench of Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra government to issue notice to Google for the alleged spread of hatred about India by its social network service Orkut.'" Apparently, someone created a "We Hate India" community, and "a picture of burning the national tricolour, bearing anti-India message, has been put on" the site. Not even Google's biggest detractors would suggest that the company supports this sort of thing. Indeed, "Google will review and take appropriate action (removal in this case)," according to a Google spokesperson quoted in the Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok: Doug is a staff writer for Murdok for the latest eBusiness news.