{"id":29507,"date":"2013-08-05T16:36:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T11:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=29507"},"modified":"2013-08-05T16:37:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T11:07:40","slug":"court-wants-to-know-mechanism-for-complaints-on-social-sites-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-wants-to-know-mechanism-for-complaints-on-social-sites-2","title":{"rendered":"Court wants to know mechanism for complaints on social sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/facebook.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15682\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-asks-facebook-orkut-to-remove-objectionable-pictures\/facebook\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/12\/facebook.jpg?fit=261%2C193&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"261,193\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"facebook\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/12\/facebook.jpg?fit=150%2C110&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/12\/facebook.jpg?fit=261%2C193&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15682\" alt=\"facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/facebook.jpg?resize=261%2C193&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"261\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/12\/facebook.jpg?w=261&amp;ssl=1 261w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/12\/facebook.jpg?resize=150%2C110&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a>The Delhi High Court Friday asked Google and Facebook to inform it about their mechanism to deal with complaints, including misuse of social networking sites by children below 13 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>A division bench of Acting Chief Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Vibhu Bakhru asked the social networking site and the search engine to appraise it about the procedure they follow to deal with complaints and posted the matter Aug 23.<\/p>\n<p>The court&#8217;s direction came on a PIL filed by former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader K.N. 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