[governance] FW: [TriumphOfContent] Worried government moves to block anti-Islam film

[Chaitanya Dhareshwar]

"Tor". It'll still spread; the blocking measures are superficial.

-C

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:45 AM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>wrote:

> Asymmetries in action… global reach, national response… Who you gonna call…
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> TNN | Sep 14, 2012, 04.17AM IST ****
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> NEW DELHI: Apprehending disturbances over a controversial anti-Islam movie
> that sparked massive anti-US protests in Libya, Egypt<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Egypt>
>  andYemen <http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Yemen>, the
> government on Thursday asked Google to block 11 URLs of the popular video
> site YouTube <http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/YouTube> containing
> objectionable excerpts from the film. The US-based Google, which owns
> YouTube, is likely to ban these URLs soon.
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> "A request to Google was made acting on the request of the Jammu & Kashmir
> government which forwarded a court order for getting those web pages
> removed as soon as possible," said a home ministry official. He said the
> request had been sent by the department of telecommunication through the
> director general of Computer Emergency Response Team India<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Computer-Emergency-Response-Team-India>(CERT-In)
> for immediate action.
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> As reports came in of Afghanistan<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Afghanistan>
>  and Pakistan <http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Pakistan> also
> blocking access to these sites, Google in a statement said, "We work hard
> to create a community everyone can enjoy and which also enables people to
> express different opinions. This can be a challenge because what's OK in
> one country can be offensive elsewhere. This video — which is widely
> available on the Web — is clearly within our guidelines and so will stay on
> YouTube. However, given the very difficult situation in Libya<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Libya> and
> Egypt we have temporarily restricted access in both countries."
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> Government has already beefed up security at the US embassy and four of
> its consulates — Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad. The five US
> diplomatic missions are being provided round-the-clock security.
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> *Times View*
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> Internet search engines and social media platforms need to exhibit a
> greater awareness of varying cultural sensibilities given the fact that
> their reach extends to the whole world. Sticking to the letter of the law
> may be a tenable legal position, but they must take into account the
> consequences of doing so. Where waiting for the legal process to unfold or
> for governments to ask them to take something off the net can mean several
> lives getting lost or communities and nations getting pitted against each
> other, they must show more common sense and act before they are asked to do
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> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Worried-government-moves-to-block-anti-Islam-film/articleshow/16390107.cms
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