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India Blocks Yahoo Groups Over Political Content

Posted by simoniker on from the brute-force-embargo dept.

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."

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  1. Re:"Different" governments by bombadillo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does it really matter what name the government is called? Wether it be socialist, communist, republic or democracy? Any form of government can be corrupt. Maybe we shouldn't be trying to bring democracy to other countries. Maybe we should be more intersted in governments that server the people. Any one notice that about 100 years ago people stopped refering to the US as a republic and started calling the US a democracy?

  2. Re:al jazeera by easter1916 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because a lot of Americans are hypocrits.