India has had a controversial law of criminalizing offenders who post degrading or disturbing things online. The law included facing up to three years in jail for posting or commenting anything along the lines of being offensive. This raises a huge point of what could be misconstrued or taken the wrong way. The debate also covers how the law clashes with freedom of speech and expression. In the article, it's explained how a professor was arrested for posting a cartoon that fell under a number of categories, including insulting women and slandering the West Bengal chief minister. Recently after that, companies had to also comply with these rules of what they can or can't post.
Even with social media like Facebook, they had to remove about 5,000 pieces of content the Indian government found were offensive. If this were the case in the US, it would be interesting to see the numbers of offensive or degrading content there is out there, even within advertisements for certain companies.
"Google says in the last half of 2013 it removed 540 items from its pages in compliance with orders issued by Indian courts, government agencies, and law enforcement."
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/24/asia/india-internet-law/index.html
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