{"id":4755,"date":"2016-07-06T19:20:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T11:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/06\/indias-supreme-court-tells-google-yahoo-and-microsoft-to-stop-hosting-sex-selection-ads\/"},"modified":"2016-07-06T19:20:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T11:20:31","slug":"indias-supreme-court-tells-google-yahoo-and-microsoft-to-stop-hosting-sex-selection-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/06\/indias-supreme-court-tells-google-yahoo-and-microsoft-to-stop-hosting-sex-selection-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"India's Supreme Court tells Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to stop hosting sex selection ads"},"content":{"rendered":"

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India’s Supreme Court has reprimanded Google, Microsoft and Yahoo for displaying advertisements related to pre-natal sex selection tests on their search engines, in violation of the country’s laws.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Prenatal gender testing and sex selective abortion is banned in India due to a skewed child sex ratio,<\/span>\u00a0but around 500,000 female foetuses continue to be aborted in the country every year according to UNICEF.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“They are patently violating the law and saying that that they cannot do anything to block such advertisements. It is not acceptable and the government must devise a mechanism to block advertisements,” the judges said<\/a>.\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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India’s Supreme Court has reprimanded Google, Microsoft and Yahoo for displaying advertisements related to pre-natal sex selection tests on their search engines, in violation of the country’s laws.\u00a0 Prenatal gender testing and sex selective abortion is banned in India due … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}