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India Blocks Code Sharing Websites On Anti-Terror Advisory
darkstar019 writes The Indian government has banned websites under the pretext that ISIS is using them for anti-Indian purposes. The list includes code sharing websites like Pastebin, Github and Sourceforge. As of now, these websites are still up. From the article: "Officials from the department of Information Technology and the department of telecom were not available for comment. 'These are all providing very dangerous kind of cut and paste services..You can take code, cut it, paste it, remove it, delete it,' said one government official who requested anonymity."
Like private companies are any better. If it were up to the private sector, there would be no unalienable rights. Screw free speech, shut down those criticisms of my company! Screw the right to life, if you don't have enough money you should starve, no matter that food is rotting in a granary because of overproduction!
The private sector cares nothing for the General Welfare. The market bears a lot of unnecessary suffering. Government should work against the selfish short-sightedness of the private sector.
Unfortunately, private money buys governments too often, and gets sites shut down in the name of terrorism but in reality because of private paranoia about IP theft or whatever.
Solution: stop viewing government like a business. Government should be an alternative to business, a hedge against the market,. Government should give individuals a "public option" so that we don't have to play the market's cruel games, if we don't choose to.
We should address the fundamental causes of terrorism, not try to shut down communications and sites. The latter is a business strategy. But the government should not be viewed as just another business.