New Delhi : Cracking its whip on terror propaganda being carried on Internet, the government on Wednesday ordered banning of two websites and some pages on social networking site Facebook after it was found that they contained material detrimental to the country’s sovereignty.
The decision was taken during a high-level meeting in which officials from Department of Telecom, Home Ministry and central security agencies participated. The meeting was convened by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, a nodal agency under Ministry of Communications that deals with cyber security threats like hacking and phishing.
“On the request of the IB and some state police, the Response Team has blocked two websites belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which were spreading the outfit’s propaganda, and two Facebook pages which were being run by anonymous people in Jammu and Kashmir,” a senior government officer said.
The two websites spreading ISIS propaganda had details of how to make bombs and training modules of the outfit. The officials said about 55-60 websites and social networking site pages, related to terror activities, have been blocked by the government this year. Earlier in the day, Telecommunication Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had said that steps will be taken to check misuse of social media platforms with the intent to disrupt communal harmony and national security.
