The Indian government has not gotten into the good books of its people in the past, and it seems as though the latest development is going to help it nudge towards that direction either. In fact, the government of the day faced a potential backlash of angry Twitter users after they ordered Internet service providers to block approximately 20 accounts which, according to officials, claim had spread scare-mongering material which had the potential to threaten national security. The Indian government threatened “appropriate and suitable action” against Twitter if it failed to remove the accounts as soon as possible.
According to several Indian newspapers, this might eventually lead to an entire ban on Twitter access in India, but this rather drastic step in theory has yet to be confirmed of happening. In fact, Twitter has not come up with a statement on their part either, never mind that there are 16 million Twitter users in India itself. One user tweeted, “Dear GOI (Government of India), Keep youre Hands Off My Internet. Else face protest”, after over 300 Web pages were blocked in the process. It is difficult to regulate what is happening online though, so it would be interesting to see just how India’s government works to contain the situation.
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Hear ye, hear ye, those of you who are currently using Chrome for iOS – it seems that this particular software or app has received an update courtesy of the folks over at Google. To put it in a nutshell, the Chrome team is more than happy to announce their maiden update to Chrome for iPhone and iPad, where upon installation of this latest update, the version number will be bumped to Chrome 21/21.0.1180.77, and along with any other decent software update out there, it will deliver a range of fixes to user-reported issues such as the ability to share directly from Chrome to your favorite social network or via email, additional actionable sync sign in error messages, better language detection for the welcome tour, as well as fixes for pages which load up blank in Incognito mode. This particular update can be downloaded over at the App Store, or you can always take the other route of looking at the prompt inside of Chrome. Current known issues can be found over at the Chrome support site. Have you given your Chrome for iOS an update already?
The Pentagon has just updated their latest set of rules for service members when it comes to using popular social media outlets, and of course, you would expect the big guns such as Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest to rank amongst the list. This new directive on social media is meant to replace the old rules (issued in 2010) that expired on July 15th, where the expiration date was extended last month when the leadership failed to arrive on a new set of guidance. In a space of less than two full years, certainly the social media landscape has changed a fair bit, but the Pentagon did not really catch up with the times, diminishing it to a two-pager on general use of “Internet based capabilities.”