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In September, lawyers at Google Inc.\u2019s New Delhi office got a tip from an Internet user about alarming content on the company\u2019s social networking site, Orkut. People had posted offensive comments about the chief minister of India\u2019s southern state of Andhra Pradesh, who had died just a few days earlier in a helicopter crash.<\/p>\n

Google\u2019s response: It removed not just the material but also the entire user group that contained it, a person familiar with the matter says. The Internet giant feared the comments could heighten tensions at a time when thousands of mourners of the popular politician were emptying into the street.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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