No Indian government will ever censor social media, Information Technology minister Kapil Sibal said, seeking to calm fears of a China-style crackdown on companies like Google and Facebook.
An Indian court last year ordered 21 companies including Google and Facebook to block material from their websites that could offend religious groups, arousing concerns about freedom of speech in the world's biggest democracy.
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