Google has said in the Delhi High Court that it is not possible for them to find out that someone has recorded a video of the online proceedings without the permission of the court and later uploaded it on YouTube.
Google said that in such a situation, it is legally and technically impossible to instruct social media platforms to stop such recordings from being uploaded again.
Video recording is not available on YouTube
Google has said in its affidavit filed in the court that the video is not recorded on YouTube, but is done outside. Therefore, it cannot decide whether a court proceeding is shown in a video, whether permission was taken for recording or not, or whether that video violates any law or not? Google has said that the rules of different courts in India are also different. In such a situation, it cannot prevent videos recorded without permission from being uploaded again by monitoring its platform in advance. Google has said that YouTube is a platform where many videos are uploaded every hour. In such a situation, it is not possible for it to find out which video is a recording without the permission of the court and which violates the law.
It is not possible to delete all videos
Google said that according to the law, its responsibility is to remove only those videos which the court finds to be in violation of the law with a particular URL (link). Indian law does not expect social media companies to decide for themselves whether the content uploaded by a third person is right or wrong. This decision can only be taken by a competent court. Let us tell you that Google has filed this affidavit in response to the petition of lawyer Vaibhav Singh. Vaibhav Singh had demanded action against those who had uploaded on social media the video of the statement given by AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal in the court of Justice Swarna Kanta Sharma in the excise policy case.
what was the matter
Arvind Kejriwal had demanded Justice Sharma to recuse from hearing the petition challenging the agency’s decision against the trial court’s decision in the excise policy case. It is being claimed that shortly after the hearing in the court, several videos of the court proceedings had gone viral on social media. After which Vaibhav Singh also demanded in his petition that the court should direct the social media companies that they should not re-upload the videos of the proceedings recorded on social media without the permission of the court.
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