On Friday 18 May 2012, Senthil S wrote: > [snip] > ARUN JAITLEY: Can the hon. Minister give an assurance to this House > that the Rules, after this broad-based discussion, will be relooked > at, and if there are any words therein, which require to be replaced > or removed, the Minister would replace or remove > them? Are you agreeable for that? > > > THE MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI KAPIL SIBAL): > My assurance to this House is that I will request distinguished hon. > Members to write letters to me objecting to any specific > words. I will then call a meeting of the Members as well as the > industry and all the stakeholders. We will have a discussion > and whatever consensus emerges, we will implement it.
That's not really enough, is it? The primary issue is of two different laws applying to issues like defamation, language, etc. On the one hand you have speech in any other medium, which needs to pass through a process of law to be classified as defamatory or derogatory or likely to inflame communal violence, and on the other hand you have writing on the Internet, which some babu somewhere decides meets arbitrary criteria and can get taken down. The same process of law, of proving your case in a court must apply for classification of expression, regardless of the medium in which the expression has taken place. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || [email protected] || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
