It’s rightly said, “One doesn’t feel stirred until it happens in the immediate neighborhood.”
It was easy reading the constraints on wearing jeans in a Kanpur college or learning about fatwa on M.F. Hussain or even knowing about tightened restrictions on Bloggers in China. But it was only when Mr. Kabil Sibal wanted Facebook, Google & Yahoo contents to be monitored in India, when many got stirred with anger and anguish. It still wouldn’t have done much to your sensitivities, but this time it was about internet – something which is inseparable from our lives.
So from where it all started?
A New York Times report on Monday that said Sibal called executives about six weeks ago and showed them a Facebook page that maligned ruling Congress Party chief Sonia Gandhi and told them it was "unacceptable". Pertaining to this, the government decided to take strict steps saying that “We’re very sensitive to criticism of the Gandhi family.”
One can imagine the extent to which Government can go, when last year there were moves to block the English translation of a Spanish novel about Sonia Gandhi's life.
Diminishing Democracy!
You can call it a mixed emotion of astonishment (to have heard such horrible news), helplessness (you can actually do nothing about it) and desperation (to make government realize their imprudent behavior). It’s either about ‘Diminishing Democracy’ or ‘Rising Revolution’.
Reactions from the brands itself –
Facebook in its reaction said it will cooperate in removing any content that violates its terms which are designed to keep material that is hateful, threatening, incites violence or contains nudity off the service.
Google said it will abide by local law and take any material if it violates its policies but asserted that it will not remove any content just because it is controversial.
Come what may, things are bound to settle within few days. We hope it doesn’t.
Your Views are welcome.
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