Using law to bully comedians
February 16, 2015  19:46
A law teacher has joined the league of self-appointed censors after watching the controversial AIB Knockout roast video. She has petitioned the Bombay high court asking that YouTube videos be monitored for offensive content before they are uploaded. 
Her demand for a censored public sphere echoes Kamlesh Vaswani's plea to the Supreme Court that intermediaries should be made to filter out all online pornography. These well-meaning citizens may wrench the online intermediary liability debate back by a decade.

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