[governance] Indian court orders Internet sites to remove content

Fouad Bajwa fouadbajwa at gmail.com
Sun Dec 25 20:22:40 EST 2011


Some nations do try to regulate such online content or simply block
out such content from being accessed by their local citizenry. The
ones outside the country obviously retain access to it. The question
then becomes, how much do countries actually realize expression online
and how many restrict that expression which of course is censorship
and then what actions they take as witnessed in the Indian case and
the Pakistani Facebook cases. The current actions are just like the
Ostrich sticking its head into the ground or the pigeon tucking its
head under its wing but no real world dialogue to understand and solve
the issues at hand but again....long story.

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Roland Perry
<roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:
> on Sat, 24 Dec 2011, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> writes
>
>> Should content inciting religious hatred be promoted at all whether
>> online or offline?
>
>
> Questions such as this are fundamental to the debate regarding censorship
> and what is acceptable in order to assure that users of the Internet are not
> restricted in what they can say.
>
> As soon as you impose restrictions, who gets to decide which are valid and
> which aren't?
> --
> Roland Perry
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