https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/01\/19\/india-judge-reuters-story-00136339<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“the news agency Reuters published an eye-opening cybersecurity investigation bylined by Washington-based reporters and full of news of interest to Americans. But Americans aren\u2019t allowed to read the story anymore \u2014 by order of a court in India.
\nIt\u2019s a disturbing turn of events that couldn\u2019t have happened in the pre-internet era, when publishing \u2014 and censorship \u2014 were largely local affairs.”<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
“\u201cIf you are the Iowa Daily Beagle, and you publish a story that upsets some company in India, that company can go to an Indian court and get whatever injunction they want,\u201d said Charles Glasser, who spent 12 years as the global media counsel for Bloomberg News and is the author of a book on international libel law. \u201cBut if the Iowa Daily Beagle has no assets in India and does no business in India, they can\u2019t do much. It becomes more of an issue for international publishers, like Reuters. They certainly have resources there, and they are subject to the jurisdiction of the Indian court.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course, Glasser notes, publishers have the ability to geofence content, making it so that an American reader can access a certain page while an Indian reader cannot. But that can backfire. Particularly in a country with historic reasons to be prickly about Western condescension, a judge is likely to take it as a sign of disrespect if an order is ignored beyond the border \u2014 not a good move if you are facing trial.<\/p>\n
The upshot: Readers in America, where prior restraint is forbidden and where courts won\u2019t enforce foreign rulings that violate the First Amendment, are blocked from reading a story based on a legal complaint that would be tossed out of most American courts.”<\/p>\n
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