Indian Nationalists Forcibly Censor Orkut

starkravingmad writes "The Economic Times is running a story on Hindu nationalists in India threatening to wreck internet cafes that don't block parts of Orkut that the vigilantes find offensive. From the article: '"Orkut is used by many destructive elements to spread canards about India, Hindus, our gods and cultural heritage," said Abhijit Phanse, president of Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sena, the student group. "We are gently telling Internet cafe owners that it is their responsibility to see that surfers do not use their facility to carry out such hate campaigns ... Or else, we will have to do that job for them." Last week, dozens of Shiv Sena workers vandalised some Internet centres, saying they were not stopping their customers from accessing Orkut groups involved in sending hate messages.'"

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Re:Are you *kidding* me?

[sanman2]

Shiv Sena? RSS? Those guys are a bunch of nutjobs. These are the same who vandalize flower shops on Valentine's Day and threaten couples if they are seen doing anything they consider "obscene" in public.

That's overblown -- the origin of Shiv Sena is due to local Maharashtrian culture having been swamped by influx from every other part of the country -- a unique burden that Maharashtrians have to bear.

As for RSS, they were created not out of theological compulsions, but as a backlash to Islamic activism -- not so unfounded considering that ethnic group split the country.

Personally, I think that these guys need to have a good drink and need to get laid a little.

Gee, you're so cool for saying that. Spend all night thinking that up?

I thought it was all about tolerance and forgiveness and all those good things? Pursuit of truth and enlightenment? No? I guess it doesn't quite have the same ring as terrorizing innocent people and flauting your ideologies about.

I'm an atheist, but I'll say that with freedom comes responsibility. Yes, these groups have on occasion gone overboard in protesting what they misguidedly feel is social decay. At least they don't fly aircraft into skyscrapers, like some people. Whole different order of magnitude. Meanwhile, the Left on the other hand is happy to promote social decay and stoke disharmony to milk votes.

Btw, it's "flaunting" not "flauting", Mr Enlightenment.

Jerks.

Oh, the vit. Vodda put down! Vayy to go! :P

Re:World ain't "get" freedom of speech

[moz25]

Why is it only the US seems to "get" freedom of speech?

It doesn't.