[governance]http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/27/net-us-un-internet-idUSBRE8AQ06320121127

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

The police officers and the judge who facilitate the arrest have been subject to administrative punishment and transferred out of their current postings.  And the Indian government has substantially tightened enforcement of the act, though without amending the act itself (for which there is currently a public interest litigation being raised in the Supreme Court by a 21 year old law student, of course one whose mother is a Supreme Court lawyer herself)

--srs (iPad)

On 01-Dec-2012, at 1:32, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 2:52 PM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> (And just to say I do believe that in something like the UDHR we have a
>> bedrock of shared values (and ways of identifying clearly aberrant
>> behaviour) on which the normative framework necessary for building the
>> decision making framework(s) can (and should) be built.)
> 
> 
> Given the rampant daily floutings of the UDHR by governments around
> the world (Syria yesterday, India arresting people for "liking" on FB
> the day before, etc, do you really think that the UDHR is a "bedrock".
> 
> I wish it was, but i don't see that it is presently!
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> 
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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