On Wednesday 19 July 2006 03:04 pm, Vinayak Hegde wrote: > On 7/19/06, िऩऩाद <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is the worst kind of censorship. > > Are we turning into a communist state. > > Tomorrow they may ban the internet. > > Atleast we would match this censorship with China if not anything > > else. Is there an option to file a PIL against such blocking of > > freedom of speech > > There is nothing even remotely "communist" about censorship. > Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to dictatorship. > To fully understand what I mean and how the state controls > the "popular media" see noam chomsky's "Manufacturing consent" > documentary.
Which is why states get all twisted about peer to peer thingies. Blogs have a similiar characteristic -widely dispersed sources and destinations. Very difficult to manipulate by readily available state methods - so ban them at the drop of a hat. And the current terrorist tactics are of very similiar nature - no central controlling body - just like minded maniacs doing maniacl things independently. So ban SIMI and Lashkar e xyz - they diligently read the govt gazette and will dutifully erase themselves u know. The weakest spot (if at all) is money. In a state as corrupt as ours it is trivial to transfer a few lacs. And techno-terrorist just need to tap some credit cards to get cash or raid a few jeweller stores in Hyderabad or make an insurance claim using false identity or maybe join a BPO for a year. Infinite means and infinite targets. Planes ya secure the airport, no local trains and metros, yikes could be the cab, or the bus, no the panwallah, god it's the temples, ganesh chaturthi definetly that, schools shit it's schools and colleges. Very difficult these slimy guys. So ban the blogs and sundry organisations and make a BEEG noise in the press so clueless public and neta sleep a deep sleep. Thebottom line is that u should have started gathering intelligence and preparing in 1993. Then pompous cop might have had an outside chance of preventing an attack. And u would definetly have been able to get hold of the perperators instead of sounding like a clueless schmuck and asking the public to observe two minutes silence. You should have had everbody screaming their heads off -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
