article_snippet: A year earlier, Delhi went one step further with Delhi digital crackdown when the so-called "intermediary guidelines" implicated web platforms themselves.
article_snippet: In Mumbai, India's financial center, police spokesman Dhananjay Kulkarni told CNN in February that some 650 posts and pages were blocked last year under these regulations.
article_snippet: Google says in the last half of 2013 Google removed 540 items from Google pages in compliance with orders issued by Indian courts, government agencies, and law enforcement.
article_snippet: Google's a similar story with Facebook.
article_snippet: The social networking site took down nearly 5,000 pieces of content reported by the Indian government in the first half of 2014.
article_snippet: CNN's Harmeet Shah Singh and Kunal Sehgal in Delhi, as well as Mackenzie Sigalos in Hong Kong contributed to this report.