back to free speech
so, we are back. my ISP has allowed me to access blogspot and the rest of the WWW that was being choked.
Harriet, to get to know more about it, you can go to Sepia Mutiny. I got your mail and thank you so much for your good words. i am not presenting an argument nor is there a moral. i am examining a social paradox, which will come across clearer as soon as i finish reworking on the first draft.
as far as the blog ban is concerned, i will go with the prudent consensus that it was a knee-jerk reaction of a clueless department in the indian government. however, selective censorship is active on particular sites and that needles me. the argument for it is that these sites will incense and escalate communalism. to any layperson who knows how the internet works, it is laughable. anything BANNED or BLOCKED on WWW can be bypassed. if our Ministry of Communication and Information Technology is of the opinion that the internet is a tangible property against which an injunction can be obtained, it is an ominous sign. a sign of limited knowledge and parochial governance.
Harriet, to get to know more about it, you can go to Sepia Mutiny. I got your mail and thank you so much for your good words. i am not presenting an argument nor is there a moral. i am examining a social paradox, which will come across clearer as soon as i finish reworking on the first draft.
as far as the blog ban is concerned, i will go with the prudent consensus that it was a knee-jerk reaction of a clueless department in the indian government. however, selective censorship is active on particular sites and that needles me. the argument for it is that these sites will incense and escalate communalism. to any layperson who knows how the internet works, it is laughable. anything BANNED or BLOCKED on WWW can be bypassed. if our Ministry of Communication and Information Technology is of the opinion that the internet is a tangible property against which an injunction can be obtained, it is an ominous sign. a sign of limited knowledge and parochial governance.
posted by Swar Thounaojam at 6:21 pm
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if our Ministry of Communication and Information Technology is of the opinion that the internet is a tangible property against which an injunction can be obtained, it is an ominous sign. a sign of limited knowledge and parochial governance. Indeed.
Re. your draft. I certainly didn't mean that I thought it had, or should have, a moral. When I say "What's it about?" it is just that I have the opinion (possibly wrong) that every text must necessarily be about something which can be expressed in a sentence or two -- that is what I meant by 'argument'. Of course the writer may not have consciously thought, Oh, I'll write a play about x or y or z -- But some impulse to say something must be at the back of their minds, surely. You say you are examining a social paradox (though you don't say what that is exactly) which certainly answers my question in part.
totally agree with the original post. half-wit directives. half-assed execution.
after some proxy snooping i have discovered why the govt. has banned princesskimberley.blogspot.com
a series of tasteless and frankly stupid photoshopped images of the quaran contain supers with urls. these images are clearly meant to be offensive and as a result exhibit an intelligent-malice quotient of zero. one such image of a quaran in a tray of (what i assume to be) cat crap contains the url princesskimberley.blogspot.com.
i guess whoever saw all these images automatically took down all the urls and blocked the sites without checking if the actual sites still hosted the images or were even active.
which explains why some of those 17 sites are actually dead links! - as per the sepia mutiny list.
sigh... we have some real imbeciles at the wheel i tell you. what a goof up.
also reading all that rabid hate-filled rhetoric makes me want to barf.
spkn of which ... for those with strong stomachs check out the video clip of the guys head being hacked off with a knife on the first banned site. i don't know whether to cry or pray...
i'm very depressed.
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