The story of internet censorship:
http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=743528
Please also read the comments on this article.
This is hilarious:
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Breaking: Kapil Sibal's censorship bill to be called SOcial Networking Inspection Act (SONIA)".
Only reason is stated below:
"The controversy had arisen over a New York Times blog which reported that Mr Sibal had summoned legal representatives of prominent internet players (Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft),
showed them "a Facebook page that maligned the Congress Party’s president, Sonia Gandhi" and told them, “This is unacceptable,” while asking them to find a way to monitor what was posted on their sites."
''BJP's Lok Sabha MP from Pilbhit, Varun Gandhi said Internet is the only truly democratic medium free of "vested interests, media owners & paid-off journos. Can see why Sibal wants to gag it," he said.
RLD MP Jayant Chaudhary, son of party chief Ajit Singh, also appeared to question the Telecom Ministry's move to ask Facebook and Google to evolve mechanism to ensure objectionable content on social networking sites are removed.
"Censorship of the internet - Forget the desirability issue for a minute, IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE??!!! Maybe Facebook, Google, etc will be asked to monitor/ remove offensive content, but what about the small blogs and vast numbers of websites that are too small to be checked?" he asked.''