India Blocks Yahoo Groups Over Political Content

Ryan Barrett writes "In an attempt to shut down the Yahoo Group of a separatist political movement, the Indian government's CERT organization ended up blocking its country from accessing Yahoo Groups as a whole. China's censorship of the Internet in the past few years has been unsettling, but most people have accepted it as a by-product of China's form of government. Given that India's form of government is clearly different, this is much more chilling."

Comments

great.

[holzp]

take all the jobs, block all the content. that country is turning into a black hole!

Re:Freedom of speech

[corbettw]

"...they can be forgiven for the Second Amendment...."

Except that without that one, the others wouldn't have lasted as long as they have.

Re:Freedom of speech

[iamblades]

(they can be forgiven for the Second Amendment)>>

You can be forgiven for your ignorance, ;).

You can't very well protect the other 9 amendments in the Bill of Rights without some kinda force, wouldn't you agree? If the government were the only ones to have weapons, do you think they would hesitate to ravage all our other rights? Granted, if the government (and everyone else) didn't have weapons either, then it may be possible to get by without them, but do you really think that will ever happen? The 2nd is the glue that hold the bill of rights together.

"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government..." (James Madison)