Unfortunate, but real state of affairs in the so called "India Shining" story! Corruption is ingrained in public and private offices. And my biggest concern is that it's become a way of life and people are indifferent to it.
Why was an Indian man held for sending a tweet?
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#22because India is a corrupt mafia run state?
If that was true, the mafias do not need to become politician.
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#23This story leaves me feeling helpless. What can I, living in the United States, do to change this statement:
In reality, [Section 66A of the IT Act of 2000] is more often used by
the state as a weapon against dissent. In each such case, police action
has been swift and harsh.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh, the story there isn't really anything to do with social media. It's about riot-related crimes being treated more harshly.
But, the rioting there never happened. It only ever got as far as a Facebook event, seen only by their own friends. (And a friend of a friend, who obviously panicked a little)
It was in the context of riots elsewhere in England -- if you read the whole article, there was a nationwide directive to treat rioting related incidents far more harshly than is the norm. (I'm not defending this!)
Some other examples from the article were jail sentences for small thefts, such as a single bottle of water. Like stealing a bottle of water, calling for a riot (regardless of whether anyone shows up) is a crime. The real story here is the general pattern: harsh prosecutions for crimes that would normally be forgiven.
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#25This story leaves me feeling helpless. What can I, living in the United States, do to change this statement: In reality, [Section 66A of the IT Act of 2000] is more often used by the state as a weapon against dissent. In each such case, police action has been swift and harsh. I'd love it if someone would comment, or better, write a blog posting with a list of actionable steps that I can take to improve things.
Whilst a laudable sentiment, you might be better off putting your energy into ensuring a similar law is never passed in the US.
We have have a very similar law in the UK, Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986, and I'm sure it won't be long before something similar is proposed in the US after the 'innocence of muslims' debacle / tragedy (which is exactly the kind of thing that the UK law was brought in for, but has been similarly abused by the authorities).
We also have rather interesting laws surrounding libel in the UK... India seems to be a bit more sane on that front at least.
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#26The same thing happened here in Bolivia. Samuel Doria Medina, tweeted that President Evo Morales had sex with a minor (17 years old) and she was pregnant. The following day the mother of the minor (a political person of power in Evo's cabinet) files for jail time among other things. This was about two months ago and to be honest, media died down on it, and I have no idea what happened to the process. Was she in fact…
17 years old is not a minor. And you don't tweet about other peoples' sexual (or reproductive indeed) lives. If person C tweets about the sexual life of B and A, then C is a bad person. They should not have done it.
P. S. I live on another side of the planet.
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#27STUPID HUMANS!
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#28Unfortunate, but real state of affairs in the so called "India Shining" story! Corruption is ingrained in public and private offices. And my biggest concern is that it's become a way of life and people are indifferent to it.
This indifference is but forced. It seems that here, the "authorities" need to be appeased to get them do the job they're paid for. If you cannot appease, you are screwed.
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#29because India is a corrupt mafia run state?
Ambiguity of English. India is not a corrupt, mafia run state, but it indeed is a state which is run by a corrupt mafia. Things are changing, but the change will not manifest itself at sufficient scale unless the established negative forces are eradicated. Which is hard. NP hard.
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#30This story leaves me feeling helpless. What can I, living in the United States, do to change this statement: In reality, [Section 66A of the IT Act of 2000] is more often used by the state as a weapon against dissent. In each such case, police action has been swift and harsh. I'd love it if someone would comment, or better, write a blog posting with a list of actionable steps that I can take to improve things.
It's not easy to take action by authorities if such acts were done by or repeated by many.