Indian company sues Google

by Jason Sanders | August 15, 2008 at 02:36 pm

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A blogger known as “Toxic Writer” has made a few enemies with his angry blog posts and has gotten Google sued in the process.

MUMBAI -- A small Indian construction-equipment company is demanding that Google Inc. disclose the name of a person who used its blogging service, in a case that could change the way the Internet giant does business in India.

Google's Indian subsidiary, Google India Private Ltd., is being sued in Bombay High Court by Mumbai-based Gremach Infrastructure Equipments ...

His blog was hosted on Google's Blogger.com service and has since been taken down; however, due to the lack of first amendment rights in India, Toxic Writer's angry, anonymous comments are being handled differently than here in Canada or the United States.

If successful, this case could change the way we publish information over the Internet.

This could potentially become an issue for bloggers bashing folks overseas, and set an example for cases regarding anonymity. On the positive side, maybe it will encourage citizen journalists to back up their posts with more researched and trustworthy information.