Monday, February 18, 2008

Will orkut be Banned in India?

From today many communities has been started showing 0 members. I found the reason for this zero members.
I sure hope not, but it seems that some people were very upset about an anti-Shivaji within Orkut, causing some violence within a few areas in India.

(IBN) The Bombay High Court has asked the state government to file its reply in connection with a pleademanding a ban on social networking site, Orkut, for hosting an anti-Shivaji web community. [...]

The community had been blocked by the Pune police after violent incidents were reported in the city when its existence came to light two weeks ago. Though the community is currently inaccessible, the petitioner has demanded that Orkut, which has captured the fancy of many Indians, be banned.


I don't know much about Shivaji, ( although I do not see the value in banning all of Orkut because of a few opinions amongst the millions who surf the forums.

Orkut has proven itself quite useful as many businesses use it to employ workers, as well as people using it to find the love of their life (congrats!).

Although there are a lot of forums within Orkut that I do not agree with, (especially the anti-American ones) I do not wish for them to be removed simply because I cherish the right for all to express themselves freely without consequence.

Simply banning Orkut would not only encourage members to get around the blocks, but also be a major set back for freedom of expression in the great continent of India.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mr.kumar right to "express our thoughts" is our fundamental right as per the constitution and courts are not above the constitution.

Anonymous said...

Best blunder ever heard

Anonymous said...

"express our thoughts" is what you think is right. SO that means you support the expressed thoughts of terrorists also. Isn't it?? Change the way you think. There is a limit to express it. And shivaji was a great warrior who always faught against odds. And I have read much about him. Thats why I can say that.

Anonymous said...

Dear Vijay,

you are right that Orkut wont be banned for such insane reasons. Because if communities start blocking on comments of some thicko, then I bet this site would be banned tooo, because of your garbled comment against all North Indian's. I do not deny with the fact that some people do misdemean, but on the basis of one individual you can not comment on the entire community. If this remains the overview of the upcoming generation, we should say BBYE to the terrorist's as we dont need any external factor to discredit love and humanity for our fellow men...

I apologise to other blogger's to divert the point.