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.'"

Comments

Re:Forget lawsuits

[KDR_11k]

Why? That would make shooting them self-defense.

Moderation abuse

[Dogtanian]

(Disclaimer: This is about abuse of the moderation system, it is not an endorsement of XChristX's views).

Regarding the "funny" moderation of the parent. There is nothing obviously funny to me about it; can we assume that:

• The mod thinks that talk of "OMG!! COMMIES!!!!" is funny, despite the fact that for a long time India was run along very left-wing (if not quite communist) principles? It's not America, and I'm sure communism *is* still a valid factor in politics there.
• It's an intended piss-take because they disagree with what XchristX is saying? (i.e. deliberately abusive modding)
• They're exploiting the "Funny doesn't give karma" loophole so that if and when XchristX is modded down to -1, it'll damage his karma more than it would otherwise? (Again, deliberately abusive modding)

I suspect it's the second and/or third.

Re:Mod parent up

[XchristX]

Check out the many number of books and articles written by Arun Shourie during his journalistic days I know Shourie's works vry well. Communists hate Shourie and loathe him...

They came into being because the 'State' failed to do its duties and instead abused the citizens. It is a well known fact that the police and the politicians abuse their power and the poor are hapless observers. This was the cause for the naxalites to come into being Bollox. Naxalism is pure and simple terrorism. They are merely a subversive group of thugs and murderers who decided to take over a bunch of colleges and start raping babies. Might want to read about Their gangster leaders Charu Mazumdar and Kanu Sanyal. Kanu Sanyal invented the Naxalite terror tactic (called Yugantar). Sanyal openly admitted that he was a terrorist. He was proud of it. He is no better than Osama bin-Laden and deserves the same fate. Instead, he stands merrily prancing about the country as a statesman.

they are equally reticent about any disruptive actions of the Indian military in Kashmir and the various Kashmiri leaders that are under house arrest Sure, sure, and 9/11 was a joint US/Israeli conspiracy, the 2004 tsunami was secretly planned by the Indian government, and the Protocols of the learned elders of Zion actually happened, right?

/sarcasm

Nice try Osama, but the Indian Military's actions in Kashmir are a response to massive human rights violations by the Islamists against the Kashmiri Hindus, millions of them have been ethnically cleansed by Muslim militants. It is the religious intolerance and racism of the Islamists that brought their fate upon them.