“Orkut Banned in India” – Will this ever become a real headline? It can happen as various political groups are preparing a move to make it happen. In India power still has power and political parties are synonyms for power but surprisingly we still are the largest democracy. Orkut has been under contriversies for various reasons. My previous post lists some of it http://www.idealwebtools.com/blog/orkut-scams/.
Today while going through Times Now I ran across their major coverage, “Controversy over Orkut ban“. They were juicing the popularity of Orkut by taking live opinions from various parts of India (In Kolkata they were at Flury). The news says,
The popular internet networking site Orkut was recently under attack by Shiv Sena workers, who went on a rampage after disparaging remarks made against Shiv Sena Supremo Bal Thackeray & Marathi icon Shivaji were posted on the site. The Sainiks vandalised a cyber cafe in Thane, Mumbai and demanded a ban on Orkut because of the remarks posted on one of its forums, essentially group blogs that allow people to write and post their views on any topic – without censors.
Here is my take on the controversial issue :-
How to tackle it?
, Enjoy Orkut.Similar Ban proposals for various other social web
What is your take on it?
Will Google ever give details of people running such groups? Google is anyway slamed by Watchdog Group on Privacy, read http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/09/AR2007060900840.html for more details.
Well….. I believe it is very hard to stop expression of emotions and feelings of people in common.. next to impossible….
in biggest democratic country….. even after being communist, China ain’t capable enough stopping these emotions….
I believe banning such social networks is against our constitution which gives us power of expression.
These so called social (Anti) groups who is continuously into mission of so called Samaj Sudhar (Social Work), we have seen how they are against Valentines day, beating todays Romeo and Juliet in park, this and that.. and so on….
I don’t know who are they to show us way through compulsion….
if these groups ain’t curbed on time then they’ll turn on like uncontrolled fanatic groups of Pakistan whom we commonly known as terrorist groups….
Shiv Sainiks are usually emotional and don’t think. Instead of finding out who it is who is talking about Shivaji, they blame orkut. I guess they will tear down the Taj Mahal if they find that someone has scrawled graffiti abt Shivaji on it.
Just show them groups on Orkut that trash Pakistan, they will start supporting Orkut like nobody’s business.
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Political parties make us feel better when they speak about democracy and we speaking in their favor. But they go into such rampage if someone says against them. Where is the democracy and freedom of speech then? It seems that such parties fund the govt and care less about any individual rights.
Thanks for all the valuable comments.
A bunch of Sainiks caused mayhem by attacking a cyber cafe and its owner the other day? Is that what you call law? Is it acceptable? Just because some insensate loser expressed his hatred for Shivaji & Shiv Sena by introducing a community on Orkut. India being a democratic country where each individual has the freedom of speech. People can convey their message through any medium if the need be so. For a fact banning Orkut is like chopping a tree and not uprooting it. Yesterday it was Yahoo,Hotmail & Hi5 today its Orkut,tomorrow it will be some other networking site. Have the government with various security measures been able to stop terrorism? Banning Orkut where on an average every seven out of ten computer literate people are accustomed to will certainly be a bad move by the Government.