Bal's to ban Orkut
Oh, c'mon -- this is real foolish. Of all the issues our nation has to deal with, banning a website? Er -- hello -- where are the priorities? Are the Sena blind? Don't they see the pro-India communities on orkut at all?Incidentally, who are these folks to ban Orkut in India -- or for that matter, any site at all? Are these the custodians of our cyberspace? Why not just snub this?And, hey, does this mean that in this cover-up of freedom to express, no one can speak against a force like the Sena? Besides, does it really matter? To each their own, after all, and what *really* matters is how issues are dealt with on the soil, rather than in virtual orkutville. And will the mere banning of a website ensure the death of the anti-Seniate waves across India? Sh-ure it will. Like di Caprio suggests in The Departed -- 'these are questions, you know', and the Sena ought to ask themselves a few. Oops -- and here goes my iLand space. Banned. 'Coz I spoke out loud against them.Democracy, this. Yeah, rrright. And we shall vote.
Venu Gopal said...
3:09 PM 12/Jun/07
Absolute freedom (to do anything we want) would be available only in our minds. Once we step out into the world at large, we have to ensure that we do not trespass others'' freedom. This, of course, would ever be a tricky situation - for one man''s meat is another''s poison. However, now that the Internet has come along, I think it is vital that we leave this never-before kind of space absolutely free for all and any expression without any restriction whatsoever. The internet must be safeguarded as the most sacrosanct space for free speech available to man. It is our best bet to launch war against all fascist tendencies. Therefore, though we may disagree with what is in the net, we must defend with all our might the net''s freedom – never mind the Shiv Sainiks.
Oh, c'mon -- this is real foolish. Of all the issues our nation has to deal with, banning a website? Er -- hello -- where are the priorities? Are the Sena blind? Don't they see the pro-India communities on orkut at all?Incidentally, who are these folks to ban Orkut in India -- or for that matter, any site at all? Are these the custodians of our cyberspace? Why not just snub this?And, hey, does this mean that in this cover-up of freedom to express, no one can speak against a force like the Sena? Besides, does it really matter? To each their own, after all, and what *really* matters is how issues are dealt with on the soil, rather than in virtual orkutville. And will the mere banning of a website ensure the death of the anti-Seniate waves across India? Sh-ure it will. Like di Caprio suggests in The Departed -- 'these are questions, you know', and the Sena ought to ask themselves a few. Oops -- and here goes my iLand space. Banned. 'Coz I spoke out loud against them.Democracy, this. Yeah, rrright. And we shall vote.
Venu Gopal said...
3:09 PM 12/Jun/07
Absolute freedom (to do anything we want) would be available only in our minds. Once we step out into the world at large, we have to ensure that we do not trespass others'' freedom. This, of course, would ever be a tricky situation - for one man''s meat is another''s poison. However, now that the Internet has come along, I think it is vital that we leave this never-before kind of space absolutely free for all and any expression without any restriction whatsoever. The internet must be safeguarded as the most sacrosanct space for free speech available to man. It is our best bet to launch war against all fascist tendencies. Therefore, though we may disagree with what is in the net, we must defend with all our might the net''s freedom – never mind the Shiv Sainiks.
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