{"id":72,"date":"2008-08-15T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pithyloquacity.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/15\/internet-companies-sued-for-sex-selection-ads\/"},"modified":"2008-08-15T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T09:02:00","slug":"internet-companies-sued-for-sex-selection-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jha.in\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Internet Companies sued for Sex Selection Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given the fact that male to female ratio in India is grossly skewed having reported a child sex ratio of 927 girls to 1000 boys in the<br \/>2001 census, against a world average of 1045 women to 1000 men. <\/p>\n<p>In some<br \/>States this is even worse including in  Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi,<br \/>some districts of Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and recently Karnataka, the<br \/>sex ratio has declined to about 900 girls per 1000 boys in the 0-6 age<br \/>group. In some districts, the ratio has plummeted to less than about<br \/>850 to 1000 boys. <\/p>\n<p>The preference for male child continues and in recent times has been assisted by mail order\/ internet companies who are able to defy safeguards by operating from outside the country. So it was just a matter of time that someone pointed this out. This news was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/idg\/IDG_852573C400693880002574A50058FBA3.html?ref=technology\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published in the New York Times today.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Microsoft, Google and Yahoo were issued notices by India&#8217;s Supreme Court on Wednesday, following a complaint that they were promoting techniques and products for the selection of an unborn child&#8217;s sex through advertising and links on their search engines.<\/p>\n<p>There is a deliberate attempt by these companies to target Indian users with advertisements that claim to help in the selection of a child&#8217;s sex, said Sabu Mathew George, the petitioner in the case, in a telephone interview on Thursday. Read the rest of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/idg\/IDG_852573C400693880002574A50058FBA3.html?ref=technology\">article here.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update: Internet giants Google and Microsoft have pulled adverts for sex selection products and services considered illegal in India after being threatened with legal action, activists said Thursday.<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20080918\/wl_sthasia_afp\/indiagenderabortionlawinternet_080918055414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(from Yahoo news)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the fact that male to female ratio in India is grossly skewed having reported a child sex ratio of 927 girls to 1000 boys in the2001 census, against a world average of 1045 women to 1000 men. In someStates this is even worse including in Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi,some districts of Tamil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Internet Companies sued for Sex Selection Ads<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Internet Companies sued for Sex Selection Ads\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jha.in\/?p=72\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" 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