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Clandestine Internet Censorship in India
nooyi86 writes "China and the Middle East block sites in order to suppress political or social dissent. Website blocking in India, on the other hand, is driven by national security-related paranoia, or hate speech that may lead to violence. The state must save its citizens from propaganda of both the extreme right and the extreme left. Shivam Vij has posted a comprehensive profile of Internet censorship in India."
Indians always remind me of those godawful Brits and NewZealanders (a bunch of snotty pips). Anyways, there are plenty of connections between the Moonies (Unification Church) and the Bush family here in Amerika. I'll bet they don't have the Moonies over in India land.....
You cannot legitimately point guns at people to make them shut up.
Who's calling for guns?
The point is not to kill or maim the ones who practice hate speech, but to keep them off the air with the help of the law. In Europe, where hate speech is precisely defined and condemned by law in most countries, a dimwit like Pat Robertson wouldn't be able to spead his hate through TV and radio, even the web. What's wrong with it? Would you condone some neo-nazi ideology being aired on prime-time TV, solely on the pretense of "free speech", knowing what's happened back 60 years ago?
Hate speech, unfortunately, easily gets an audience with the frustrated populaces who want a scapegoat... I say it's better to limit the damage beforehand by simply making it as difficult as possible for those wanabe-hitlers to spread their mentally deranged speech. Laws are society's standards and I don't believe a free society would gain anything by helping its most extreme constituents spread their destructive ideology.
How would you like it if Al Qaeda were to open a TV channel and spread its anti-western propaganda towards the muslim population of your country, in the name of a freedom they're bound to anihilate?
We already put limits to freedom in many areas, mostly for the good of society... Freedom to spread racial or religious hate is something we can part with, along with murder and theft.
-- It's always darker before it goes pitch black.