Foreword:Read this quickly.No telling when the censor guys come around and censor the sense out of this little ol' post.
So the entire internet community is in an uproar over Kapil
Sibal’s attempt to censor material on certain sites on the internet.And can you
blame them?The internet is supposed to be free.No not THAT free-that’s illegal
and called piracy,shame on you if you indulge in it.By free I mean the freedom
of speech-the freedom to call someone a douche bag sitting in your dark
basement room trying to sound badass and dissing movies on message boards.Yes I know you also
use the internet to search for erotica-shame on you again.Point is the internet
allows you freedom real life doesn’t.So naturally censoring the internet WILL
cause an uproar.People will be angry.But from experience and history we know
that people are as often right as they are wrong.So let’s analyze this a bit.
Does the internet need a guardian?That’s the first
question.I would say yes it does.We all know of cyber frauds,cyber crimes,etc.So
yes it does need a guardian.Next question-does content on the internet need to
be censored?Suprising though it may seem,the answer is YES IT DOES.The most
obvious question which arises next is why?Well for many reasons-For
example,suppose someone uploads a formula for making bombs,suppose some
fundamentalist is spreading his warped twisted theories and brainwashing young
people.There can be various other reasons but I think we have established the
fact that yes often content on the internet needs to be censored.For the
greater good (Winks).
Now comes the question-is the Indian government right in
censoring material on the internet?My first reaction is that it depends-if he’s
going to censor what some teenager writes on Facebook then it’s absolutely
pointless.Yeah many people may abuse politicians on the internet but it’s not
causing them any harm is it?Cricketers and filmstars have been getting this
hatred for ages-the fanboys of two rival superstars in India are always at
loggerheads and abusing the holy hell out of each other.So this basically seems
kinda pointless if not downright petty and fascist.However if this censorship
is used to censor some bank robber somewhere from planning a bank robbery with
his fellow robbers on Facebook or something like that then I guess it’s
useful.The last line sounds mindblowingly stupid no?That’s because it is.
In the end I would have to say I don’t know if Mr Sibal has
any hidden agendas or motives (he’s a clever man no doubt) behind this,but I’d
have to say up front this sounds a really bad idea-one which has expectedly not
found close to as much love among the internet community as Kolaveri Di.
