[governance] Indian court orders Internet sites to remove content

[Roland Perry]

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<CAHuaJtPfRrUkRQO2Nxs1BP0BAfX+qEJYSePJ0ybAHSX-RsR1bQ at mail.gmail.com>, at 
06:22:40 on Mon, 26 Dec 2011, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> writes
>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.

One way to examine the situation is to try to work out which is the 
greater "right": for someone to freely insult or distress me, or for me 
to protected from those who would insult or distress me.

It doesn't help when different cultures have different values when it 
comes to defining what an "insult" or "causing distress" might be. To 
that extent, sometimes people will look to their government to apply 
some broad-brush rules on their behalf.

>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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