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Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the many-shades-of-evil dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After a Google user posted a profane picture of the Hindu saint Shivaji, Indian authorities contacted Google to ask for his IP address. Google complied. He was arrested and is reported to have been beaten by a lathi and asked to use the same bowl to eat and to use in the toilet. Not surprisingly, Google is a keen to play this down as Yahoo is being hauled over the coals by US Congress for handing over IP addresses and emails to the Chinese Government which resulted in a Chinese democracy activist being jailed." Readers are noting that these are 2 unrelated cases — the latter is several months old.

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  1. Sell Outs by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Google has already sold out to Scientology and China. Why shouldn't India be allowed to join the club?

    Of course, I have such low expectations for liberals anyway, so I have no one but myself to blame for being so disappointed in them.

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    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
  2. Re:Wow... by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I do think it was bad. I think it's an indication that we need to get rid of anonymity so next time the right person will be apprehended.

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    -1 Uncomfortable Truth
  3. Re:Even the Post Title by Anonmyous+Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    > And why are China men offended by "Chinaman" but English men aren't offended by being called "Englishmen" and Irish men aren't offended by being called "Irishmen?"

    Because "Chinaman" was the term preferred by racist white Americans responsible for various atrocities against Chinese immagrants. These things are, of course, usually a bit more complicated than simple hatred for hatred's sake (The Chinese Massacre of 1875 was a labor dispute), but in the end, murder is murder.

    It's the same reason why the term 'Nigger' is unacceptable even though it's just a mispronunciation of the Spanish word for Black: it's associated with horrible historic brutality that the vast majority of us (you excluded, apparently) acknowledge as wrong.