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More Indian Government Attempts to Remove Material from Western Sites

"Mumbai’s cyber police department seeks to remove content [containing obviously PhotoShopped images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi] hosted on this [Northern Ireland] blog, BuzzFeed, Google Blogger, Amazon CloudFront, Tumblr, and Flickr."

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Dean Sterling Jones (Shooting the Messenger) has the scoop; for more on earlier such attempts, see this post from August.

Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA School of Law. Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any institution.