I'm constantly amazed at the cluelessness shown by officials. Sometimes I wonder if they're doing it just to troll us...
India Asks Google, Facebook to Screen User Content
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#12Ridiculous - "At the meeting, Mr. Sibal showed attendees a Facebook page that maligned the Congress Party’s president, Sonia Gandhi. “This is unacceptable,” he told attendees, the executive said, and he asked them to find a way to monitor what is posted on their sites." I'm not allowed to criticize my government in a public forum? Pardon my language, but this is fucking ridiculous.
Haa. Sonia Gandhi is not technically part of the government. But of course she is more powerful than the government.
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#13Just. Wow. Mind boggling amounts of stupidity. "In the second meeting with the same executives in late November, Mr. Sibal told them that he expected them to use human beings to screen content, not technology, the executive said. The three executives said Mr. Sibal has told these companies that he expects them to set up a proactive prescreening system, with staffers looking for objectionable content and deleting it b…
It is funny how much people who don't contribute to the world think they get to tell other people what to do.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a cultural angle to this - Indian politicians (and even lots of jingoistic citizens) take insults to their honour/culture waaaay too seriously. That, and they're troglodytes who don't understand the Internet.
This I don't understand. Most of the Chinese and Indian politicians have STEM backgrounds. In theory, they are supposed to be very smart and critical thinkers. I find it hard to believe that someone that believes in the theory of evolution and the laws of thermodynamics doesn't have the same regard for freedom of expression or the cost of the human life.
Can you explain what STEM background means? Most politicians in India are uneducated. Of course the ones at the national level are educated but by and large they are think only save their seats and get reelected, nothing beyond that.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a cultural angle to this - Indian politicians (and even lots of jingoistic citizens) take insults to their honour/culture waaaay too seriously. That, and they're troglodytes who don't understand the Internet.
This I don't understand. Most of the Chinese and Indian politicians have STEM backgrounds. In theory, they are supposed to be very smart and critical thinkers. I find it hard to believe that someone that believes in the theory of evolution and the laws of thermodynamics doesn't have the same regard for freedom of expression or the cost of the human life.
Where did you get this glorious idea from, about Indian politicians? Half of the parliament probably never finished high school.
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#16This is what you get when you seriously consider making SOPA into law: "If you can get companies to strangle funds and kidnap domains of people saying that, can't you not also make this disappear?"
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
This I don't understand. Most of the Chinese and Indian politicians have STEM backgrounds. In theory, they are supposed to be very smart and critical thinkers. I find it hard to believe that someone that believes in the theory of evolution and the laws of thermodynamics doesn't have the same regard for freedom of expression or the cost of the human life.
Can you explain what STEM background means? Most politicians in India are uneducated. Of course the ones at the national level are educated but by and large they are think only save their seats and get reelected, nothing beyond that.
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math.
Having a STEM background doesn't mean they aren't pig ignorant, it just means ...
Well, to be honest, it probably doesn't mean anything other than they were capable of passing a test.
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#18Holy cow!!
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a cultural angle to this - Indian politicians (and even lots of jingoistic citizens) take insults to their honour/culture waaaay too seriously. That, and they're troglodytes who don't understand the Internet.
This I don't understand. Most of the Chinese and Indian politicians have STEM backgrounds. In theory, they are supposed to be very smart and critical thinkers. I find it hard to believe that someone that believes in the theory of evolution and the laws of thermodynamics doesn't have the same regard for freedom of expression or the cost of the human life.
Most of the Chinese and Indian politicians have STEM backgrounds.
To the contrary. Most Indian politicians are battle-tested veterans of university student unions (the "youth" wings of major political parties). They spent their university years running political campaigns, fighting the other unions, general thuggery, etc. In other words, they are the muscle of the political parties. After graduation (a term used lightly), they move on to the parent parties and rise up through the ranks. The rise is mostly determined by 2 major factors: your pedigree (as in who's kid & grandkid are you), as well as sycophancy (the more outlandish your slavish behavior, the faster your rise).
The fraction of politicians with a STEM background would be about 0.001%, if not less.
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#20Have the Indian politicians learnt nothing from the events unfolding in the Middle-East this entire year? Or could it be that they _have_ seen the power of the 'net, and are scared? This (defamatory pages) could just be a ruse to assert control over the 'net, to prevent an Indian Jasmine Revolution.