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India blocks 73 URLs criticizing IIPM, an MBA college

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Re: India blocks 73 URLs criticizing IIPM, an MBA college

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Post by shadab_ »

nithinr6 wrote: post #8
lake99 wrote: post #4

It does not look quite so bad to me. There is a big difference between saying "the food was so bad that I puked" and saying "the cook tried to poison me". The issue is being debated, both, in public and, via the court.

What if there's actual evidence of 'the cook trying to poison'? http://www.careers360.com/news_3067-IIPM-Best-only-in-claims (If you are from India, you may need to use a VPN to access this.

Fortunately their website doesn't redirect you to the canonical URL of the article, so you can change the URL and still access it. Like, http://www.careers360.com/news_3067-screw-censorship

Re: India blocks 73 URLs criticizing IIPM, an MBA college

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Post by cynwoody »

shrikant wrote: post #28

They've done this before against an excellent piece of investigative journalism done by an Indian magazine called The Caravan, called " The Sweet Smell of Success : How Arindam Chaudhuri made a fortune off the aspirations -- and insecurities -- of India's middle classes." That article was taken down, but I'd pulled a PDF of it then, so here it is for anyone that wants to know more about the shadiness that is IIPM. ht…

Would anyone buy a used car from this man?

http://goo.gl/mmEuI

Re: India blocks 73 URLs criticizing IIPM, an MBA college

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Post by sandGorgon »

alan_cx wrote: post #13

Fascinating. Currently our (UK) Prime Minister is in India trying to sell our universities (amongst a lot of other things) to Indian students. Lovely bit of inter-cultural exchange right? Generally speaking, yes, absolutely. The more the merrier as far as I am concerned. However... Back here in the UK, the very same PM has trebled the costs of going to university for English and Welsh students, pricing many out, rais…

>If the cream of their crop flock here, then where does that leave their education system? If Indians fill out the university places left by Brits who can no longer afford it, where does that potentially leave race relations in the UK?

This is a solved problem. You see, England was never as aspirational as Silicon Valley for Indians in general - and that immigration has been going on for many decades.

Reverse brain drain (going abroad, studying and coming back) is something that both India amd China have engineered very successfully. We have awards for distinguished Non Resident Indians given by the Prime Minister which, I daresay, is designed for nostalgia. IMHO no other country makes such a big deal of its non resident citizens.

This is precisely one of the reasons that Obama is trying to introduce the startup bill - Indian and Chinese immigrants are very happy going back and starting companies at home.

I think Cameron is responding to the US and Australian attraction for Indian students. England is least preferred anyway because of the racism (a couple of Australian incidents font make it as bad as England).

Re: India blocks 73 URLs criticizing IIPM, an MBA college

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Post by nness »

_delirium wrote: post #33
burkean wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> here in the UK, the very same PM has trebled the costs of going to university for English and Welsh students, pricing many out As far as I was aware, under the new scheme, graduates only start paying back their student debt once (and only if) their income crosses a certain threshold. That seems like a fairly good deal to me--a crude approximation of saying 'you only pay for your degree if you get financial value fr…

graduates only start paying back their student debt once (and only if) their income crosses a certain threshold Interesting, I had missed this (but I'm not British, so haven't been following closely). It looks like the new scheme defers repayment if you earn less than £21,000 (US$32,500), and then it further caps annual payments to 9% of your income that exceeds that amount.

This is very very similar to how it works for tertiary education in Australia too.

Re: India blocks 73 URLs criticizing IIPM, an MBA college

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Post by ankitml »

canttestthis wrote: post #32
thewisedude wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just to be clear- The university that you study has the right to censor certain websites because they are providing you internet and hence they can stipulate the rules(for the service they are providing). However, the argument here is that the government should not block URLs because they are not providing the service and they are just regulators of this service. The argument here is that as regulators, they are goin…

By your argument, censorship by ISPs is justified.

When you join the unviersity you must have signed any terms of service. That usually includes statements like, internet from univ will be used only for academic purposes. This is why they block the websites

Re: India blocks 73 URLs criticizing IIPM, an MBA college

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Post by theanalyst »

runarb wrote: post #12

IIPM, welcome to the Streisand effect :) Never heard about them before, but guess that this case will get so widespread now that it will be impossible to sue and block all the critics. Maybe this is a case they can analyse at there school?

Very much so! normally no one would have stumbled across many of those links, now all news articles publish all the urls at one place, and of course everyone is curious what they say
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